During the first months of ARCHiOx, several items from a rare collection of Sanskrit texts inscribed into palm leaves were digitised using the photometric stereo system. The very fine, almost unreadable markings made on such fragile material make the objects difficult to access and study. With high-resolution recording, ARCHiOx has been able to create digital editions which can be analysed virtually in great detail without endangering the original manuscripts.
Carlos Bayod Lucini and John Barrett testing the Selene on a palm leaf manuscript © Matt Marshall | Factum Foundation
The fragile material makes these manuscripts difficult to access and study © ARCHiOx
Colour layer of one of the palm-leaf manuscripts © ARCHiOx
Shaded render © ARCHiOx
Detail of the colour from one of the palm-leaf manuscripts © ARCHiOx
Detail of the shaded render © ARCHiOx
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