art history
3D Printing Brings Modena Cathedral to Fingertips of Visually Impaired
3D printing has proved time and again to be an excellent resource for sharing visual material with people who cannot see it. Printing 3D versions of paintings, providing sculptural versions…
Students Use 3D Printing Technology to Interact with Ancient Greek Artifacts at Victoria University of Wellington’s Classics Museum
One of the most important rules that children have drilled into their heads before museum field trips is to not touch the exhibits. But in recent years, 3D scanning and…
The Next Rembrandt: Reaching Toward the Human Soul with 3D Printed Data
The technical world of 3D printing is an absolute wonder of precision and possibility. It has become clear that there is an as yet unlimited potential for improvement of the…
3D Scanning & Printing Brought in to Solve Centuries-Old Art History Mystery
The summer I was 15, I lived in England. A lovely family in Coventry took me in, and with them I explored the surrounding area. Among the places I loved…
The Body Beautiful: Amazing 3D Printed Variations of Venus de Milo are Fabricated
The statue of Venus de Milo, on display in the Louvre, embodies the ancient Greek ideals of beauty. That connotation has remained so strong that for a time its image…
