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(frontispiece of Siggraph 2000 proceedings)

A computer rendering made from a 3D model of Michelangelo's David. The modelwas built by scanning the statue using a laser triangulation rangefinder andassembling the resulting range images to form a seamless polygon mesh. Themesh contains 8 million polygons, each about 2.0 mm in size. The raw data fromwhich the mesh was built contains 2 billion polygons, representing rangesamples spaced 0.25 mm apart on the statue surface. Although we also digitizedthe statue's color, the veining and reflectance shown here are artificial. Therendering includes simulated subsurface scattering, but with arbitraryparameters. Thanks to Henrik Wann Jensen for computing this image.

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Authors:

David Statue 3d Print

Kari Pulli < kapu@graphics.stanford.edu >
Brian Curless, University of Washington < curless@cs.washington.edu >
Szymon Rusinkiewicz < smr@graphics.stanford.edu >
Dave Koller < dk@graphics.stanford.edu >
Lucas Pereira < lucasp@graphics.stanford.edu >
Matt Ginzton < magi@cs.stanford.edu >
Sean Anderson < seander@cs.stanford.edu >
James Davis < jedavis@graphics.stanford.edu >
Jeremy Ginsberg < jeremyg@cs.stanford.edu >
Jonathan Shade, University of Washington < shade@cs.washington.edu >
Duane Fulk, Cyberware

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Hand Sculpture 3D Model. Athena Giustiniani 3D Model. Bust of a cuirass man 3D Model. Kore dressed in chiton and cape 3D Model. Jules-David Cromot, Baron du Bourg 3D Model. Seated Muse Thalia 3D Model. Venus Kalyppigos 3D Model. The 3d models of these sculptures may not be 100% identical but can be used to study anatomy, musculature and proportions. Michelangelo’s David. This is the 3d model of a great, 17 feet tall master piece, David. The statue of David is created between 1501 and 1504 by Michelangelo, the Italian artist.

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Proc. SIGGRAPH 2000

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Abstract:

We describe a hardware and software system for digitizing the shape and colorof large fragile objects under non-laboratory conditions. Our system employslaser triangulation rangefinders, laser time-of-flight rangefinders, digitalstill cameras, and a suite of software for acquiring, aligning, merging, andviewing scanned data. As a demonstration of this system, we digitized 10statues by Michelangelo, including the well-known figure of David, two buildinginteriors, and all 1,163 extant fragments of the Forma Urbis Romae, a giantmarble map of ancient Rome. Our largest single dataset is of the David - 2billion polygons and 7,000 color images. In this paper, we discuss thechallenges we faced in building this system, the solutions we employed, and thelessons we learned. We focus in particular on the unusual design of our lasertriangulation scanner and on the algorithms and software we developed forhandling very large scanned models.

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Powerpoint slides from our presentation at Siggraph 2000