par Bavay, Laurent 
Référence Vienna 2: Ancient Egyptian Ceramics in the 21st Century (14-18 May 2012: Universität Wien (Autriche))
Publication Non publié, 2012-05
Référence Vienna 2: Ancient Egyptian Ceramics in the 21st Century (14-18 May 2012: Universität Wien (Autriche))
Publication Non publié, 2012-05
Poster de conférence
| Résumé : | Measuring the contenance of vases offers valuable informations on problems such as standardization, exchanges and trade or the correspondence between actual shapes and ancient lexica. This vast fiels of study however remains little explored, mainly because of practical reasons : it is not easy to determine the capacity of a container from fragments provided by the excavation or of vases kept in museums and too precious or fragile to be manipulated.As part of a wider research project on « Pottery in ancient societies : Production, distribution and uses » in Brussels University, archaeologists teamed up with computer engineers to develop a new tool allowing to calculate the capacity of a vessel from its scale drawing. In an extremely simple way, the user sends a drawing and virtually fills in the vase: its capacity is automatically calculated and provided in real time.This application is freely accessible from the website of the Centre de Recherches en Archéologie et Patrimoine at http://crea.ulb.ac.be. It is entirely web-based, and therefore OS-independent (works on Mac, Intel or Linux), without any installation required from the user. The test period ended in 2011, with 250 registered users so far and more than 6000 drawings sent. Although technical improvements are regularly implemented based on user feedbacks, the application is fully operational. |
