The Parthenon Sculpture Gallery

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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." … "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 …http://www.cosmowenman.comhttp://www.twitter.com/CosmoWenmanhttp://www.youtube.com/CosmoWenman Instructions 2012-06-19: I have converted the ICT's .wrl files to .stl format (except the "East_Frieze_05B_Textured" file, on which I encountered problems), and made no edits other than omitting from the .stls what appeared to be scaled-down duplicates nested within each object in the original .wrl files. Based on my own quick examination, these files have many, many holes. They will take a lot of clean-up to be made print-ready. However, once fixed, they look like they will print very well. The ICT says these are "low-res models at 10% of the scanned polygons"; if ICT or Basel Skulpturhalle have published the high resolution scans, I was not able to find them. If you find them please upload them and put a comment below with a link.