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You can't download their David dataset though. Which is a crying shame since artworks like this should belong to all mankind.
Oh, but you can: http://graphics.stanford.edu/dmich-archive/
This is one of the more interesting things to come out of the overlap of technology and artworks to my mind. If we continue to have arrangements like that of the Elgin Marbles in London some kind of compromise where a good quality facsimile like this can be created for relatively cheap and displayed to the public then at least we get to have a freer access to our shared heritage. It's a crying shame they had to resor…
While not everthing is high-res (picasso cough..) and the interface is meh (you have to zoom too much, its really a good start.
I think they allow visitors to take pictures too. I think you can't stop it cell phones being cameras now.
http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/291708?p...
I saw the structure.io scanner mentioned here, anybody have any other suggestions?
[1] ubi-erat-lupa.org
Excitingly enough, UNESCO and IDA are helping fund cameras for 3D scanning of cultural heritage sites in Syria to preserve them in the event ISIS/ISIL destroys them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_of_cultural_herita... "After the Palmyra temple's destruction in August 2015, the Institute for Digital Archaeology (IDA) announced plans to establish a digital record of historical sites and artifacts threatened…
Hopefully these are multi-spectral captures with published spectral sensitivities and a published file format.
(I haven't the slightest idea how to verify what you mentioned, sorry!)
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A worst-case-scenario discussion with some colleges brought to mind some invasive future applications of this tech. For example, what if you could film somebody in public long enough for a recreation of their nude body to be generated? Doesn't seem far fetched. What if you could scan the likeness of somebody and then import them into some sort of pornographic virtual reality... It's enough to make you wonder what kin…
This sort of thing could be handled with an extension of personality rights law.
here's a render I made of it: http://www.indigorenderer.com/forum/download/file.php?id=205...
Edit: profile render: http://www.indigorenderer.com/forum/download/file.php?id=205...
For some purposes one needs volume information
What options are there for consumer-level volume scanning using ultrasound ?
Excitingly enough, UNESCO and IDA are helping fund cameras for 3D scanning of cultural heritage sites in Syria to preserve them in the event ISIS/ISIL destroys them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_of_cultural_herita... "After the Palmyra temple's destruction in August 2015, the Institute for Digital Archaeology (IDA) announced plans to establish a digital record of historical sites and artifacts threatened…
Hopefully these are multi-spectral captures with published spectral sensitivities and a published file format.
This saddens me, as the Neues Museum has seen the other side of this coin: After the war, lots of items were looted by the Russians, most notably jewelry from Troy. But I guess this must be common practice for several museums.
Random fact: While the museum doesn't allow you to take pictures (not even from another room), they do have a 3d reconstruction you can touch, destined to blind visitors.
I am always amazed by people's ability to choose the worst possible examples or context for whatever point they're trying to make. Syria and Iraq are currently undergoing unprecedented destruction of archeological heritage, perpetrated entirely by people from the "Global South", fighting for (their part of) the "Global South"'s resurgence against the evil West. I always wanted to visit Syria; now I can only wish that more of its monuments and artifacts had been taken abroad, so that they could be saved.