National Museums Scotland A.1902.281 crupper RTI Untitled Item

A.1902.281 <br>NMS Catalogue Description: Horse's crupper, of cloth and yellow-stained leather, with leather and tin cone tags and beadwork ornamentation: North America, USA, Montana, or Canada, Alberta, Blackfoot Confederacy, mid - late 19th century <br> <br>Reflectance Transformation Imaging dataset of underside of crupper taken on project visit to National Museums Collection Centre, Edinburgh September 2021. <br>Comprising 150 jpeg files and finished .ptm file. <br> <br>RTI is a computational photographic method that captures a subject’s surface shape and colour and enables the interactive re-lighting of the subject from any direction. RTI also permits the mathematical enhancement of the subject’s surface shape and colour attributes. The enhancement functions of RTI reveal surface information that is not disclosed under direct empirical examination of the physical object. <br>