Rupestrian CyberServices

Computer science in the service of rock art research, protection, and education.

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Rupestrian CyberServices:

What do we do?

  • Prints, 35mm slides & negatives scanned and archived to CD/DVD with image database.
  • Images digitally enhanced; multiple images stitched together.
  • Panoramas produced for hardcopy or QTVR.
  • GIS image databases developed. Canyon de Chelly National Monument, AZ, Lava Beds National Monument. CA, Pinyon Canyon, CO, Hueco Tanks and Seminole Canyon, TX, and Torrey Lakes, WY.
  • Guest Curators for Stories on Stone, the Rock Art of the Colorado Plateau, at the Museum of Northern Arizona in Flagstaff, 2005-2006. Research Associates, 2007.
  • Rock art sites recorded. Currently engaged in multi-year projects documenting rock art in the Guadalupe Mountains of New Mexico and Sears Point, Arizona.
  • Educational multimedia titles developed. Keyhole Sink and Deer Valley Rock Art Center CDs developed.

Evelyn and Bob:

More about us.

Our Selected Publications relating to rock art and multimedia

Gigapans: (Gigapans_Poster.pdf)

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White Shaman: http://www.gigapan.org/gigapans/39160/

Sears Point: http://www.gigapan.org/gigapans/36254/

Chevelon Steps: http://www.gigapan.org/gigapans/32102/

Glen Canyon Gigapans:

http://gigapan5.gc.cs.cmu.edu/gigapans/46555/

http://gigapan5.gc.cs.cmu.edu/gigapans/46566/ 

http://gigapan5.gc.cs.cmu.edu/gigapans/46576/ 

http://gigapan5.gc.cs.cmu.edu/gigapans/46585/ 

Papers:

Pictographs at Hunters Shelter: Possible Extension of the Red Linear Style into the Guadalupe Mountains of Southern New Mexico (PDF)

High resolution version (16MB) at http://www.rupestrian.com/The_Hunters_Shelter.pdf

 

Computer-Assisted Photographic Documentation of Rock Art (PDF)

 

Desert View Watchtower Panoramas

2.4 MB PDF File

 

A Stitch in Time: Digital Panoramas and Mosaics

4.5 MB PDF File

 

Application of Digital Image Enhancement in Rock Art Recording

1.6 MB PDF File

For Rock Art Links, see:

http://www.rupestre.net/rockart/

NY Times Article about our work:

By MINDY SINK, October 1, 1998

Fading Indian Rock Art Saved, at Least in Database

http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/98/10/circuits/articles/01indi.html
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Rupestrian CyberServices
3644 N Stone Crest St.
Flagstaff, AZ 86004
USA
928-526-3625 Voice/FAX
rockart@infomagic.net
(Unfortunately, aka Rupestrian Cyber-Services and Rupestrian Cyber Services)