Archaeologist | FSA | Available for projects | Working with #3Dscanning since 2002 | Rock art & inscriptions | Folklore, traditions & customs
Website: https://tom.goskar.com
Tom Goskar
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Playing with CloudCompare to compute roughness models at different levels to try and tease out more letters of a particularly eroded early medieval inscription on rough granite. Natural crystal structure is too noisy to gain more detail from depth mapping and AO. Trend surface might also work.
Some very sad news from Cornwall. Our thoughts go to Andy’s family and friends.
Some thoughts on 3D structured light scanning (SLS) for archaeologists and heritage folks. tom.goskar.com/2025/09/02/e...
Very sad that Dr Andy M Jones from Cornwall Archaeological Unit has died. I'd worked and co-authored a couple of papers with him. He was constantly working on projects, his brain always fizzing with ideas and connections. We planned some "one day" Cornish rock art projects. Must make them happen.
It’s a data processing week this week. Creating a very high resolution model of an inscribed stone to analyse every bit of its surface, including some tantalising but faint markings. The fans are revving up on my main computer. My office needed warming up anyway…
Just tried Perplexity's AI Deep Research tool. It made up a great looking report answering my queries about literacy levels of early medieval British stonemasons. It literally made it up, including imaginary quotes from imaginary manuscripts. It didn't use the sources I gave it either. Fail!
