HOT SPRINGS -- After a favorable first attempt, members of National Park College's Makerspace program recently returned to the studio of local artist Longhua Xu to offer continued high-tech assistance ...

Editor’s Note: This article was produced in collaboration with the Arts & Culture MA concentration at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. As museums look at 3D scanning as a way to ...

In France during the mid-to-late 1800s, one could go into François Willème’s studio, sit for a photo session consisting of 24 cameras arranged in a circle around the subject, and in a matter of days ...

3D scanning is important because the ability to digitize awkward or troublesome shapes from the real world can really hit the spot. One can reconstruct objects by drawing them up in CAD, but when ...

In 1998, the late Paul Allen of Microsoft paid a group of students and faculty from Stanford and the University of Washington to travel to Florence to obtain 3D scans of sculptures by Michelangelo.

Employees at Arius Technology preparing to scan an artwork (all images courtesy Arius Technology unless otherwise noted) The art market’s never-ending arms race to technologize its provenance ...

For more than a decade, museums around the world have been making high-quality 3D scans of important sculptures and ancient artifacts. Some institutions, such as the Smithsonian and the National ...