[Aztlan] 3D laser scanning question

[Elaine Schele]

Hi Ed,

Corpus team overcomes scanning snag,
Ingenuity, flexibility helps Corpus expedition manage bumps in road
*By Alvin Powell*
Harvard News Office

A multicolored tent made of tarps and rope and tree branches and duct tape
rose above Yaxchilan's unique pinkish stalactite stela Monday (April 23). On
the last day of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology's expedition
to the ancient Maya city of Yaxchilan, team members were doing something at
which they had proven themselves adept: improvising. The expedition had
already achieved its main goal: testing digital scanning technology that
could provide an important new way to preserve fading Maya monuments across
Central America. Despite some initial hiccoughs, the technology had proved
itself over the weekend, when scans of the large flat Stela 11 were
completed.
See the link below for the rest of the story:

http://www.hno.harvard.edu/multimedia/specials/yaxchilan/index.html

On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 12:43 PM, Ed Barnhart <edbarnhart at mayaexploration.org
> wrote:

> Dear Listeros,
>
> Does anyone know of a project that has scanned Maya stelae or altars with
> the new 3D laser scanning equipment? I'm referring to the kind of equipment
> that Cyark has been using.  Mainly I see architecture being scanned, not
> art
> and monuments.
>
> Thanks, Ed
>
> Dr. Edwin Barnhart
> Director, Maya Exploration Center
> 7301 Ranch Road 620 N
> Suite 155 #284
> Austin, Texas 78726
> (512) 350-3321
>
>
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