In the last year, while developing my stained glass craft and conservation skills, I have also spent time exploring the use of digital imagery as a complement to other visual documentation in stained glass conservation. The appearance of stained glass depends, as for all artistic media, on the way it interacts with light. The nature of the light is important (including spectral distribution and intensity) and so is the balance between reflected and transmitted light. However, in contrast with 'opaque' media such as painting or tapestry, where light reflected from the surface is the main factor, for stained glass we are primarily concerned with the transmission of light. In this respect, there is compatibility between the luminous display of the computer screen and the back-lit display of a stained glass panel, even though the light that reaches our eyes is manipulated differently.
Nonetheless, stained glass images 'work' on the computer screen in a way that many would argue paintings do not. My plan has been for my computing skills and experience to develop in parallel with my conservation work over the three years of the Course. In the first year my aim was to acquire a broad overview of how and where computer documentation could be implemented and to familiarise myself with the software. In my second year, I am concentrating on the documentation of specific objects including the Adoration of the Magi by Guglielmo de Marcillat from the V&A Collection (Museum No. One of my main concerns has been the use of CD and removable Syquest disks to store the many images scanned from slides taken during conservation.
The report that I am helping to create includes straightforward images and others that have been manipulated or generated using the computer. All can be displayed on the computer and made available as 'hard copy'.
Stained glass design software software#
In my final year, I hope to achieve a high level of dexterity with the software and make the use of computer imaging a more standard practice in the conservation studio.
#Stained glass design software software#Ī more specific ambition is to explore the possibility of applying 3D imaging software to stained glass images. This would allow me to set a window from a museum collection in an appropriate architectural environment and simulate the effects of different lighting. The viewer could 'see' the window as it might look in situ at different times of the day or during different seasons.
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