digital reconstruction
3D Printing for Reconstruction of Human Skeletal Remains
While 3D printing offers many users the ability to create and innovate completely new designs and products, such technology can also be put to very good use for filling in…
No Bones About It: Materialise Has Taken On a Mammoth 3D Printed Reconstruction Project
Materialise is in the middle of an SLA 3D printing project of epic proportions…one might even call it a mammoth job. The Belgium-based company is creating a life-size, 3D printed…
Using 3D Technology to Recreate the Lost Faces of Herculaneum
After 800 years of silence, Mount Vesuvius came dramatically to life in August of 79 CE, belching forth deadly gas, molten rock, and searing volcanic ash onto those unfortunate enough…
Take a Virtual Tour of a Wealthy Pompeii Home Before the Volcano, Thanks to 3D Technology
One of the most famous tragedies of all time is that of Pompeii, the Mediterranean village destroyed by a volcanic eruption in the year 79 AD. In mere minutes, the…
The Lord of Sipán: 3D Scanning and Modeling Recreate the Face of Ancient Peruvian Royal
No one really knows what happened to the Moche civilization, which populated Peru between the years 1 and 800 CE. They were artistically and architecturally advanced, with several monuments and…
University of Chicago Digitally Restores Ancient Buddhist Caves with 3D Scanners
In the Shanxi province of China, about 36 kilometers south of Taiyun City, stands the Heavenly Dragon Mountain, or Tianlongshan. In the sixth century, Buddhist monks began construction on a series…
