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PostPosted: 04-20-2015 01:18 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Smithsonian are in the process of releasing scan data of iconic collection objects for free. This is a REALLY exciting development, I hope other institutions take their lead.

The scans are available as .obj data and there's an embedded viewer on the site.

http://3d.si.edu/browser

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PostPosted: 04-20-2015 01:30 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


thats actually pretty awesome.
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PostPosted: 04-20-2015 01:44 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


The viewer on their site is pretty cool. You can change quite a few aspects of the rendering, including the texturing mode, specularity and lighting properties.
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PostPosted: 04-20-2015 03:34 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


in before QL map Smithsonian Heights with dinosaurs...
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They are scanning my cock ATM... Started the task two weeks ago... Should be done by summer hopefully...
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PostPosted: 04-20-2015 04:56 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Yeah, it takes a few months to make the adjustments on the electron microscope...
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PostPosted: 04-20-2015 07:46 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


^ :olo:
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PostPosted: 04-21-2015 04:49 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


this is very cool what a resource ey!



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PostPosted: 04-21-2015 05:01 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


xer0s wrote:
Yeah, it takes a few months to make the adjustments on the electron microscope...


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PostPosted: 03-22-2017 05:47 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


To celebrate the Apollo anniversary they've got some scandata of an Apollo 11 module up grabs.

http://3d.si.edu/apollo11cm/index.php

You can look at them on the viewer on the website and download some shitty decimated versions for 3D printing but the thing that interests me is the super high res raw scan data they've made available. I've compiled this 16M poly version of the exterior and it's fascinating. Moving onto the heat shield next and then the interior.

Wish we'd had this resource when I worked on Gravity.



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PostPosted: 03-22-2017 05:56 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


That's spiffy, thanks for share :)



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PostPosted: 03-22-2017 06:37 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Cool. Someone import these in Unity and make Kerbal Space Program parts out of it :)
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