Update on my 3D printing exploits.
I have a fascination with the symbolism found on cemetery grave markers; they are monuments to the dead of everyday people. I have been looking at ways to capture some of these grave markers as a record and as a way of showing them to people who don’t have access, so have been experimenting with some 3D modelling and 3D printing.
I idea is you take a series of overlapping images and crunch it with 3D modelling software to produce a mesh that can be covered with a texture or printed.
Here is my first attempt on a marker in St Marys Moseley.
So we start off taking lots of overlapping photos, I took about 50 for this marker.
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We then crunch the data in a piece of software called Meashmaker to make a 3D mesh
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This gives us a 3d model that we can output to another piece of software so it can be printed with a 3d printer.
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Or we can keep a 3D record of the object. This would be amazing for museum collections
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Finally, we can print the model on a 3D printer. This is one I did on my filament printer.
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