3D scanning and printing has change the way medicine is drill and businesses are run , but some of the less life - alter things it does are no less awesome . Take Tom Burtonwood’sFolium , a account book of printed “ pages ” that each curb a dissimilar part of art you could really feel with your mitt .
Burtonwood glance over nine pieces of graphics and carving , rate from 664 BC to the 20th century , at the Chicago Institute of Art . Using Autodesk ’s 123D gimmick and Recap photogrammetry , he was able-bodied to captivate and the elusive topography of each objet d’art in model space , then publish them as pages for the book of account . There ’s a relief of Buddha ’s Footprints from second century India . A portrait of George Washington from the nineteenth hundred . Even a nod to Chicago ’s own architectural heritage — the last Sir Frederick Handley Page contains a relief of a control panel design by Louis Sullivan .
The project is made even cooler by the fact that the covering fire and table of contents is write in braille , so the visually impair can love these work of artwork by feeling them . The entire project has been released under a Creative Commons License , which means that you may head over toThingiverseand print your own transcript aright now . Because the way the book is plan , the varlet can also be removed from the hold — so you could , say , make a cast of each musical composition using the negative space on the back of the page .
For hundred , these pieces of art have stayed cloistered away at bottom of museum . Burtonwood is bring them out for us to actually touch ( the horror ! ) and in the case of the unreasoning , perhaps experience for the first time . [ Tom Burtonwood ; viaBoing Boing ]
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