Uniform lighting conditions appear rough and almost unnatural (Image: Alexandrino Goncalves) New imaging techniques model how it would have looked (Image: Alexandrino Goncalves)
FROM cave paintings to Roman mosaics, our perception of archaeological artefacts is affected by how they are lit – which is usually by bright modern lights. As a result, the way we see them may bear little resemblance to how they would have looked to the people who created them.
Alan Chalmers of the Digital Laboratory at the University of Warwick, UK, wants to fix that. He is working with computer scientists and archaeologists at the Roman…
