Also selected for the WHIR cohort is Chad Hutchens, Head of Digital Collections at UW Libraries for his proejct, “Using Photogrammetry and Reflectance Transformation Imagery to Document and Preserve Petroglyphs from Site 48BH92.” Working with the UW Archaeological Repository, the Bureau of Land Management, and the Buffalo Bill Center of the West, Chad will use two relatively new 3D imaging techniques, Reflectance Transformation Imagery and Photogrammetry, to digitally reconstruct nine Native American petroglyph sandstone fragments that were dynamited from a cliff-face near Greybull in 1962 and subsequently lost in museum storage. The resulting 2 ½ D and 3D models will be accessible through the UW Libraries Digital Repository and will allow for a new assessment on their condition, new research, interactive exhibits, as well as full-scale 3D printed models of the petroglyphs. |