Project IRENE Using optical scanning to digitize ethnographic field recordings on wax cylinders

Successive Profiles

Description:
This method is meant to illustrate how data collection works for a cylinder. During acquisition, individual measurements of the height at 180 points along a line are taken in quick succession, at slightly different positions, as the cylinder rotates, and then stitched together in analysis software.
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Exhibit Tags:
diagram, method, probe, and data acquisition