Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Konica Vivid 9i

Our first 3D scanner, the Vivid 9i, has arrived! Students from the Sustainable Archaeology Animation Unit, who have joined us for an internship program over the summer months, have set up, and are starting to do a few test scans with our new equipment. We're very excited to add the scanner to our growing list of equipment, and to start developing the protocols for artifact scanning and digitization that will be used to create digital reproductions of thousands of artifacts held at our facility.

Thursday, May 10, 2012

Sustainable Archaeology Featured on Western News

Lights, camera, action! Last week Sustainable Archaeology was visited by Western News. The article posted on the Western News site features a discussion of the project by Neal Ferris and Rhonda Bathurst, as well as a video of our new microCT scanner in action with Andrew Nelson of the Anthropology Department at Western University.

Check out the article and video on the Western News site here.

Thursday, May 3, 2012

MicroCT training

 
Nick Hadland, from Hadland Technologies, is on site this week to run us through the basics on the Nikon microCT scanner. That's a slow loris skull you see on the screen - our first trial on the scanner.