March 08, 2005

Digitized Michelangelo. In a previous post I alluded to the unique techniques being used to digitally preserve different sorts of art objects. The 'Digital Michelangelo Project' has done a 3D scan of Michelangelo's David and a handful of other sculptures.
posted by ActuallySettle 19 years ago
  • Man, that is one link-dense webpage. Even if I were obsessed over the project, it would still take me weeks to go through them all.
  • I've known of this project for years. I should as it my job is this exact field; 3D scanning of "stuff". I am currently involved in a project involving the digitising of a 45 meter bridge that has over 180 hand carved sandstone panels. The sand stone isn't as well presented as David is, I often get spiders and insects in my scans. I had to get a forklift licence to do it too. So far I have scanned over 120,000,000 points of info. We're estimating that the final will be well over 1 billion trianges. If there are any monkeys into the 3D thing who want some free, unrestricted scan data, ask. Thanks ActuallySettle, I often don't find people who have even heard about my line of work.
  • Nice link, ActuallySettle.
  • Great link. The flyaround is an amazing video clip.
  • *3D bananas to ActuallySettle and jacbo*
  • This is great! I'm currently digitising my wife, so that I'll always have a perfect copy of her "in her prime". We tend to argue a lot about it though! She thinks her sense of humour is best described as 101101001001110010001110, whereas I've always thought it was more 100101001001110010001110. I mean, the fucking cow doesn't even like Woody Allen.
  • I will spend hours here. Very great link. thx