Volume cartography

Volume Cartography is the name of a computer program for locating and mapping 2-dimensional surfaces within a 3-dimensional object.^[1] X-rays can reveal minute details of what is in an object,^[2][3] and computer program such as Volume Cartography can organize the images into layers, a process called volume rendering.

Burned scrolls

In 2016, W. Brent Seales, a researcher at the University of Kentucky, created a set of computer programs called Volume Cartography to reconstruct the layers of text in a digital X-ray image of the one of the scrolls, known as the En-Gedi Scroll.^[5][6]

Process

• Volumetric scan — An
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• Segmentation — Surfaces are found and broken into small triangles, resulting in a triangular mesh defining the surface. ^[citation needed]

• Texturing — Each point in the mesh is assigned a weight, indicating the likelihood that the point contains writing. ^{[citation needed]}

• Flattening — The mesh surface is mapped onto a plane. ^{[citation needed]}

• Merging — The pieces of the recovered surface are assembled into a single image. ^{[citation needed]}

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