Nerdist: Many museums around the world remain shuttered. Fortunately, you can still visit some of the best virtually, from the comfort and safety of your own couch. But why stop there? Forget just looking at pictures on your computer. You can now can bring some of the most famous and exalted works of art into your home. And you can do it for free.
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I think that this is awesome. I would love to make a mini sculpture garden if I had a 3D printer. I have always loved marble sculptures and the fact that we can access many famous sculptures for free through this virtual museum is awesome! 3D printing is still pretty choppy through so I really wouldn't have the same feeling as marble. The best part about sculptures is seeing how the artist made something so hard look so soft. That magic is lost when it is 3D printed, at that point they are just little plastic figurines, but it still might look cool.
This seems like such a fun thing that you could do! I mean I probably have no reason to have a replication of any statue in my house, but it certainly would be a conversation piece. Apart from the fact that I do not think I will be 3-D printing a statue anytime soon, it is really fun that you can just look through all these pieces of art that you might not otherwise ever have a chance to see. It is such a great feature that you can have a random statue pop up and look at that one. That is a great way to really open up your own exposure to pieces of work that you might not otherwise be aware of. This could also make a fun trivia game of having the random sculptures pop up and see if you can guess their name and their sculptor. I think this is a great program that I will definitely be looking forward to trying out!
This seems like such a fun thing that you could do! I mean I probably have no reason to have a replication of any statue in my house, but it certainly would be a conversation piece. Apart from the fact that I do not think I will be 3-D printing a statue anytime soon, it is really fun that you can just look through all these pieces of art that you might not otherwise ever have a chance to see. It is such a great feature that you can have a random statue pop up and look at that one. That is a great way to really open up your own exposure to pieces of work that you might not otherwise be aware of. This could also make a fun trivia game of having the random sculptures pop up and see if you can guess their name and their sculptor. I think this is a great program that I will definitely be looking forward to trying out!
This is super exciting to me! This open source online museum allows you to view thousands upon thousands of famous sculptures & even 3D print them at home. I, like Bridgt, personally do not have a way to do that at home nor do I need to have 3D printed sculptures in my apartment. But, I think this is a great way for people to experience art while the museums around the world are closed because of the pandemic. I really like that it is a free platform and you can use it to just browse through the different sculptures and learn more about the pieces even if you do not plan to print them out. I am not sure I will be utilizing this anytime soon to print anything but I do want to take a look at the website! This is a really interesting program and I am glad people put this together.
I think one of the coolest aspects of the overall maker movement is its desire to increase accessibility to a number of experiences and tools that have previously been blocked by a paywall. As a 3D printing enthusiast, I have a number of small copies of sculptures from a similar site that are 'remixes' (the 3d modelling equivalent to a cover of a song) by artists. For example, I have a copy of The Thinker that was passed through a low-poly filter to reduce it to its basic form. This platform is further promoting the exchange of ideas between artists which is really exciting! Further, even during normal times, most people cannot afford to travel and experience art in various institutions around the world. While viewing a 3D model is obviously not an equivalent experience to seeing the original thing, this platform is a great way to increase exposure and educate viewers in a casual setting.
This is a very neat database. I love seeing sites that make museum content accessible. This article made me think about copyright and ownership of artwork and pieces in an open source community or in databases like this. I mean many artifacts in museums are old enough to be in public domain, but I guess I’m wondering more about recent pieces of art and where the fair use line gets crossed. I guess open source work is all about making things and giving permission to everyone to use, replicate, and modify their work after publishing it online. If a piece of artwork, not in the open source community or created with that intention gets scanned into a database like this with the idea that more people can experience that piece of art, but then it gets co-opted or manipulated or iterated in ways the artist does not approve of? If the 3D models are being sold that would be a blatant violation of fair use, but how does modification play into it? Maybe I’m just thinking too hard about this, but it’s what this article made me think about.
This seems like such a cool idea! I love all of the different uses that this can have. First thinking of the educational purposes. It makes it so much easier for schools and teachers to get access to very famous art pieces in order to teach their students in a more immersive way, rather than just having them look at pictures. It would make the learning so much more concrete. It would also make it easier for schools to teach about art that is not in their local museum. While teaching local art is so incredibly important being able to get get your hands on the art that is on display across the world makes learning about history so much more fun. Secondly thinking of the simply fun things one could do. I personally would love to have a miniature sculpture of "the Thinker" in my house. It would make decorating so much more fun, and it means that the art in my house would actually be meaningful and important.
I think this is a really cool concept. First of all, I have always been fascinated by 3D printing and other forms of additive manufacturing. That being said, learning how to create 3D STL files to print can be a bit of a challenge. Sure, it is easy to learn the basics, and print something like a cube or other simple object, but to be able to replicate objects with the detail on these works of art would take a very advanced knowledge of 3D software. These days, there are countless open-source resources for complex 3D prints for anyone to make. With these new 3D scans of these famous statues and other 3D works of art, the library of free 3D prints has grown even more. Just this past Wednesday, in AdFab, Ben Carter showed us a print from either this statue library, or something similar. We even began to print another one – which would have taken 13 hours. That being said, about an hour and a half in, I took a peek at its progress and noticed it was messing up and filament was going everywhere, so after contacting Ben Carter, I cancelled the print. Sad days.
This is very dangerous information for me because I'm SUCH a sucker for classic sculptures AND as a student at the lovely Carnegie Mellon University, I do, in fact, have access to 3D printers. In all likelihood, I wouldn't do it just because of how taxing on resources it would be for me to print even a couple. However, I AM paying a shitload of money to basically Skype into my classes so I may as well milk this school for everything it's got. Props to all the people above who are talking about accessibility of educational resources and how so much information that should be public domain actually exists behind paywalls. Good to have you good and considerate souls around. I'm just here to further my image of a pretentious vampire professor who may or may not be a time traveler. Maybe one day I'll have a little more consideration for that kind of thinking. It's a work in progress.
This is interesting to me. It feels like once 3D printing becomes more accessible this could honestly be a great education tool when learning about subjects like art history. Although I love the sculpture initiative, this article makes me think of the broader applications of 3D printing in a learning environment. I feel like being able to hold and see physical and accurate models of certain things would be so useful to visual and hands-on learners. Coming back to the sculpture idea, I think this would be a very cool thing to have and use for that purpose. Knowing that the prints are very accurate too makes them all the more interesting. I am not that familiar with 3D printing so I wonder how long and how expensive each individual statue is to make. I also wonder how long it will take for 3D printing to become more accessible, as it seems like a fairly exclusive practice as of now.
Obviously, 3-D printing famous sculptures will never be equivocal to the real ones. However, I do strongly believe that this will be a great educational tool and is a great advancement in technology to learn about the past. Being able to view a 3-D model on a computer, being able to zoom in and out, looking at details, and rotating it at ease, is just simply amazing. However, I do worry about the forgery that may take place in scams and such things, especially with how precise 3-D rendering will be able to get it. I suppose the material will be the one thing separating this, but when selling online, I am concerned that this may become an issue. I believe though, that this is a great way to maintain popularity and engagement, as well as overall more knowledge about famous sculptures to the next generations. It will be a way to get more in touch with each sculpture without having to travel to a random museum in Italy.
This is super neat! Like Katie, I’m also curious about how this works in terms of licensing and copyright. Since these belong to a museum, they are probably old enough to belong to the public domain, but I’m not sure how this would be applied in the future to more recent work. Since this is effectively replicating art for free, I don’t know artists would feel about this. However, I think this is a great idea! I don’t know much about 3D printing so this really fascinates me. I wonder how the museum managed to get a full scan of all the sculptures so they could recreate them. I don’t get that technology, but it would be cool if the museum did a segment on how that process works! I would also love to make these and put them in a garden! Or a fairy garden! It would be so cute!
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