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.

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.

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.

Our Official Logo!

Our updated logo design was completed this week, and has been added to our website. The logo image represents a circular hearth, in which boxes containing archaeological material are converted from object to digital data through the digitizing "smoke".

A big thank you to Double Q Printing and Graphics in London, Ontario, who completed the polishing of our logo over the last few weeks.

Mezzanine workstations

The research associate workstations have been set up in the mezzanine. By this time next month, this space will be in use as the Digital Animation Unit gets to work on developing the 3D protocol we will be using for our scanned objects at the facility.

Heave-ho!

The microCT scanner from Nikon Metrology is moved into the Ancient Images Lab at Sustainable Archaeology. It took 5 men and several pieces of equipment to get it into place (it weighs almost 4 tonnes). The machine will be setup and training will commence the first week of May.

microCT arrives

Right on time, the riggers arrive to offload the microCT scanner. Two trucks, two big crates and several smaller boxes - along with a crew of five to assist. It's a major production just to get this piece of equipment into its new home in the Visualization Lab.