Ideas for the technically minded
March 10th, 2013Dragnetting the web for Vermeer as I often do, a lot comes up, both illuminating and obscure.
For example, I discovered that aside from Philip Steadman’s game-changing study on Vermeer and the camera obscura, the amount of technically oriented writings on Vermeer’s interiors is extensive, and a number of them can be accessed online. I won’t swear by any: the math is way way over my head, but maybe not over yours.
- Parametric Reconstruction of the Space in Vermeer’s Painting”Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window”
http://lordick.dgfgg.de/docs/Lordick-Vermeer-JGG-2012-1.pdf - Reconstructing the Space in Vermeer’s “Officer and Laughing Girl”
http://www.anistor.gr/english/enback/p043.htm -
Inferring illumination direction estimated from disparate sources in paintings: An investigation into Jan Vermeer’s “Girl with a pearl earring”
http://www.mit.edu/~kimo/publications/vermeer/vermeer.pdf - The Length of Vermeer’s Studio
http://www.geometrie.tuwien.ac.at/stachel/stachel_kyoto_2010.pdf - Vermeer’s maps: a new digital look in an old master’s mirror
http://www.e-perimetron.org/Vol_1_2/Livieratos_Kousoulakou/Livieratos_Koussoulakou.pdf - Music Lesson”: An application of projective geometry
http://www.math.nus.edu.sg/aslaksen/projects/Aditya%20Liviandi%20-%20Vermeer.pdf - Reconstructing Vermeer’s Perspective in “The Art of Painting”
http://www.geometrie.tuwien.ac.at/stachel/stachel_kyoto_2010.pdf - Inside the Camera Obscura – Optics and Art under the Spell of the Projected Image
http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/Preprints/P333.PDF
