Posted January 7, 2016
Ten of us, in two 4WD double-cabin pickup trucks, did a field trip deep into the remotest parts of the jungle-covered mountains of Guatemala, Central America, to test methods to render Mayan thatch-roofed houses in 3-dimensional imaging. We used a drone and drone pilot, and university students who are studying digital imaging and biology.
This week, two of us are in Dubai to study wide-format inkjet printing and signage technology. We will be testing which inkjet printers and toner printers can best produce high-resolution photographs of these Mayan houses, plus which printers can best show high-resolution digital photographs of rare Neotropical flowers and jaguars.
Posted October 2015
In the 17th century Spanish colonial former capital of this part of Central America, Dr Hellmuth gave a lecture last Friday on water lily (Nymphaea alba) ethnobotany, iconography, and cosmology, based on his PhD dissertation of the 1980’s.
Now, the coming Friday (Oct 30th), Nicholas will lecture on jaguars, tapirs, crocodiles, herons, sea anemones, turtles, sharks, and stingrays: creatures associated with river, lake, and ocean scenes in Mayan murals, stone sculpture, or decorated funerary vases, plates, and bowls. These lectures are organized by Fundacion La Ruta Maya.
After this lecture Nicholas and two others from the wide-format inkjet printer, inks, and printable substrates division of FLAAR will fly to SGIA in USA and then two will continue to ITMA in Italy.
