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Artists Covertly Scan Bust of Nefertiti and Release the Data for Free Online

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Re: Artists Covertly Scan Bust of Nefertiti and Release the Data for Free Online

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Post by iNerdier »

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 resort to doing it undercover though. What exactly has the museum really got to lose?

Re: Artists Covertly Scan Bust of Nefertiti and Release the Data for Free Online

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Post by aresant »

I anticipate all sorts of crazy digital-rights management battles ahead for 3D objects like this - including art - but even more on likenesses / people / etc.

Roughly a year ago I bought a structure scanner (1) for my iPad, scanned in friends, imported to unity and let them walk around themselves in the Oculus DK2.

That was a very cool experience but an unexpected result was how many people asked me to delete the scan afterwords.

The comment was it was too creepy to have your 3d likeness floating around out there, these comments from friends that spend their days posting 2d to FB / instagram.

A bust is about the ideal thing to scan with current consumer tech, since it's completely static, but add in algorithmic stabilization / stitching and 3d scanning a human (or recreating from photographs) with or without their permission is right around the corner.

(1) http://structure.io/

Re: Artists Covertly Scan Bust of Nefertiti and Release the Data for Free Online

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Post by hayksaakian »

aresant wrote: post #5

I anticipate all sorts of crazy digital-rights management battles ahead for 3D objects like this - including art - but even more on likenesses / people / etc. Roughly a year ago I bought a structure scanner (1) for my iPad, scanned in friends, imported to unity and let them walk around themselves in the Oculus DK2. That was a very cool experience but an unexpected result was how many people asked me to delete the sca…

i think it's a generational thing. if you asked people 10 years before facebook to post pictures of themselves voluntarily all over the web, they would have the same response.

the same will happen for 3d likenesses once it's trivial to post '3d selfies' on '3d instagram'.

Re: Artists Covertly Scan Bust of Nefertiti and Release the Data for Free Online

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Post by ry_ry »

iNerdier wrote: post #2

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…

If i had to hazard a guess? Some slightly muddled thinking, mired in the ill-considered application existing digital copyright law concepts.
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