A trio of scholars has recently explained how an electronic camera can be used to read otherwise unreadable ancient inscriptions.a To enhance vague images on ancient manuscripts, this team of scholars used an electronic camera and image-processing techniques developed for space photography at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Jet Propulsion Laboratory administered by the California Institute of Technology. An electronic camera does not use photographic film. Only in the final stage of presentation is the information translated into visual form. Basically, the camera electronically measures the brightness of a great many points (or pixels) in its field […]
