Seeing is Believing: Using Multispectral Imaging to Reveal the Unseeable in Art and Cultural Heritage at MSU Libraries

Type: Presentation

Description:
Have you ever wanted to look into the past and see the unseeable? Want to know how a regular camera makes an image that mimics human vision? Now you can! Watch MSU librarians and Rochester Institute of Technology’s Color and Imaging scientists demonstrate exciting new technologies helping cultural heritage institutions in novel ways. In the first demonstration, one type of multispectral imaging utilizes wavelengths invisible to eyesight, to reveal faded or worn texts and colors from ancient items. In the second demonstration, color science turns a regular camera into another type of multispectral camera to reproduce art matching human eyesight.