The Parthenon Sculpture Gallery by CosmoWenman

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Retrieved from the USC Institute for Creative Technologies (http://gl.ict.usc.edu/parthenongallery/galleries.php ) by Cosmo Wenman, June 2012.
For more information about this work visit:http://gl.ict.usc.edu/parthenongallery/http://gl.ict.usc.edu/parthenongallery/vast2003_parthenon_sculptures_final.pdfhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parthenon
The Parthenon Sculpture Gallery project was conducted by:
USC Institute for Creative Technologies: http://gl.ict.usc.edu
Basel Skulpturhalle: http://www.skulpturhalle.ch
VCG CNR-Pisa: http://vcg.isti.cnr.it
The project was sponsored by:
TOPPAN Printing Co., Ltd.: http://www.toppan.co.jp
The University of Southern California: http://www.usc.edu
TELL TOPPAN PRINTING WHAT YOU THINK OF THEIR SPONSORSHIP OF THESE SCANS:
http://twitter.com/ToppanPrinting
Tweet: http://bit.ly/Mu6nB8 (Pre-composed tweet says "THANK YOU @ToppanPrinting for The Parthenon Sculpture Gallery: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:25298", but you can rewrite it to say what you like.)
From ICT's descriptions:
"The data for the models in this gallery was gathered from the Basel Skulpturhalle ( http://www.skulpturhalle.ch ) in Switzerland. This museum houses a unique collection of high quality plaster casts of all the known Parthenon sculptures.
Using a custom built structured light scanner, all of these plaster casts have been digitally scanned and assembled as 3D models. Using a systematic scanning approach, the 2,200+ scans used to assemble the meshes were acquired in five days with a team of four people. The models were subsequently aligned, merged, and decimated using the MeshAlign v.2 and MeshMerge software tools developed by the Visual Computing Group at CNR-Pisa in the framework of the EU "ViHAP3D" project."
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"Please note that these are low-res models at 10% of the scanned polygons."
Objects included:
Artemis
Caryatid
Dionysos
Iris
Krekops-Pandrossos
North Frieze
South Frieze
East Frieze
West Frieze
North Metope
South Metope
East Metope
West Metope
"The masterworks of three-dimensional art are joining the digital commons." – Virginia Postrel, Bloomberg View, http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-06-14/3-d-copying-makes-michelangelos-of-the-masses.html
Watch "Through a Scanner, Getty" youtube.com/watch?v=blKcIsEEoag
For more objects uploaded by Cosmo Wenman, go to:http://www.thingiverse.com/CosmoWenman
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