Two years ago, a scandalous “art heist” at the Neues Museum in Berlin—involving illegally made 3D scans of the bust of Nefertiti—turned out to be a different kind of crime. The two Egyptian artists who released the scans claimed they had made the images with a hidden “hacked Kinect Sensor,” reports Annalee Newitz at Ars Technica. But digital artist and designer Cosmo Wenman discovered these were scans made by the Neues Museum itself, which had been stolen by the artists or perhaps a museum employee.
Posts Tagged → 3D
Hooded Prisoner in 3D
“Introducing murk and contamination into 3D worlds is really difficult, I would say that’s the biggest challenge: how to simulate the endless filth of the world.”
Bear
by Kim Laughton
Everything comes from photography
“We define ourselves as photographers even when we’re working with 3D materials,” say Paris-based duo Benjamin Roulet and François Bellabas. “Everything comes from photography.”
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Museum visions
“You cannot touch the exposed pieces, but nobody told me not to use them as emitters.”
Particle rendering a portrait from the Bode-Museum using Redshift by Simone Vezzani.
Emo-landscape
Image by Andreas Johansson Design
3d printed memes
Historical Photography Brought to Life
In Statu Nascendi
Created by Katarzyna Kijek and Przemysław Adamski, ’In statu nascendi’ captures the ’under construction’ process, in this case, of global illumination pass in rendering:
To highlight a peculiar inability to reflect reality by the film, we focus on the ‘struggle’ of generating an image. We capture the process of rendering ‘in statu nascendi’ (‘under construction’). Therefore we try to intercept this moment of the creative process, which is the most ephemeral – a temporary, piecemeal render phases (mostly global illumination pass). In the course of animation every next frame is more accurately rendered but still far from the target appearance. By analogy to chemical processes, the term ‘in statu nascendi’ refers to the intermediate products of chemical reactions, which can not be isolated from the environment of this reaction. They are therefore just ‘under construction’, and then disappear.
More at kijekadamski.blogspot.com
(via CreativeApplications.Net)
The Recollector
“The Recollector is a 3D collage, created in the computer. Jasper de Beijer has used video game technology to create a virtual environment which is somewhere between a museum, a theatre and a photo archive. The visitor can freely walk around in it like in a physical space.”
(via TRIANGULATION BLOG)