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To his list of firsts, Barack Obama can add that he was the first U.S. President to have himself scanned and 3D printed. Obamas 3D-printed bust and mold of his face were on display Wednesday (June 18) at the first-ever White House Maker Faire, a celebration of students and entrepreneurs who are using technology to create new products and businesses, according to the Smithsonian Institution. A team of Smithsonian 3D digital-imaging specialists scanned the president earlier this year. They used the University of Southern Californias Light Stage face scanner to capture Obamas face in high resolution,
and handheld 3D scanners and SLR cameras to create a reconstruction of his bust. Next, experts in 3D graphics at the software company Autodesk produced high-resolution models, which were printed using 3D Systems selective laser sintering printers. The scans and printed models will become part of a collection at the Smithsonians National Portrait Gallery, which showcases multiple images of each president. The 3D portraits will be added to the museums current collection of works representing Obama.
More here: http://www.livescience.com/46422-obama-3d-printed-portrait.html?cmpid=514645_20140620_26386416
http://theobamadiary.com/
frazzled
(18,402 posts)Just sayin'
immoderate
(20,885 posts)--imm
Kablooie
(18,646 posts)frazzled
(18,402 posts)I was clearly making a joke. I'm not sure what you know. But I feel confident about what I know: both about race and about 3-D sculpture. I have been close to artists who have been working with 3-D modeling for quite a number of years.
Kablooie
(18,646 posts)No offense meant.
frazzled
(18,402 posts)and haven't watched Game of Thrones. Call me culturally illiterate. Sorry I took offense. (But maybe an explanation was needed.)
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)and trust me, the Jon Snow thing was also cool.
so, win-win.
CatWoman
(79,302 posts)Chan790
(20,176 posts)I've tried to think on it, come back to it...but at the end of it, I just don't like it. It reminds me of the white-plaster memento mori castings and death masks they'd make in the High Middle-Ages and Renaissance of dead important people--often placed in the coffins, saved as articles of state, kept by family, or displayed as part of the burial marker.
A secondary-casting in plaster from the wax-casting death mask of Oliver Cromwell.
CTyankee
(63,926 posts)but it certainly was the way they did things in those days. Oy.
whistler162
(11,155 posts)"The Museum also owns a unique collection of life masks cast from the actual faces of famous Americans by John Henry Isaac Browere. Thomas Jefferson, John and John Quincy Adams, DeWitt Clinton, and Dolley Madison are among those in the collection."
http://www.fenimoreartmuseum.org/fenimore/collections/american_fine_art
One of my favorite exhibits at the house.
CTyankee
(63,926 posts)surrealAmerican
(11,368 posts)creepy - cool, but creepy.
Kablooie
(18,646 posts)And they are online, available for your perusal.
http://3d.si.edu/
Here is a 3D life mask of Abraham Lincoln.
http://3d.si.edu/explorer?modelid=27
Note: It requires WebGL which isn't available on iPhones or iPads.
CTyankee
(63,926 posts)dilby
(2,273 posts)Never noticed it before till you see just a white bust of him.
BainsBane
(53,127 posts)but that bust does. I thought the same thing!
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)They'll be printing all kinds of presidents without a license that we be untraceable.
Looks like something out of a Mission Impossible movie
Generic Other
(28,979 posts)biomechs.