Work examples

Color-calibrated replicas using 3D printing

The project produced true-to-scale and color-calibrated replicas of ancient artifacts through contact-free 3D digitization and 3D printing. They serve exhibition purposes at the original location Roseninsel. The originals are of high value and are therefore not allowed to be displayed for safety reasons. Also, the production of replicas by traditional print-making methods were not considered as suitable due to the risk of damaging the original surfaces.

The project was carried out in cooperation with the 3D Printing Department at Fraunhofer IGD to use the color printer driver Cuttlefish for reproducing the geometry, colors as well as fine color transitions of the original.

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© Bayerische Schlösserverwaltung, Archäologischen Staatssammlung / 3D model and rendering video: Fraunhofer IGD
Location: Bayerische Schlösserverwaltung, Archäologischen Staatssammlung
Date: Greek and Roman antiquity
Technology: semiautomatic photogrammetric acquisition with Nikon D610 + 50mm and Cuttlefish

Data fusion using the example of a skull of a Franconian woman

What is seen is the web-based data fusion of a skull of a Franconian woman, precisely the 3D model of skull, lower jaw and of the replica of the entire head. The head was reconstructed by forensic scientists and then printed in 3D. The 3D-centered visualization tool (Cultural Heritage Repository) has been developed by the Competence Center for Cultural Heritage. It allows for virtual measurement and visualization of individual layers.

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© Museum Bensheim / 3D-model and rendering video: Fraunhofer IGD
Location: Museum Bensheim
Date: approx. 550 AD
Technology: CultArm3D

Virtual tour through the Berlin Philharmonic

In cooperation with the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the Competence Center for Cultural Heritage Digitization captured the entire interior of the Philharmonic Concert Hall in Berlin. The first step was to create a detailed 3D model which was then turned into a realistic 3D print. This was on view at the exhibition Berlin/ Los Angeles: Space for Music in summer 2017.

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© 3D model and rendering video: Fraunhofer IGD
Location: Berlin
Date: 1960–1963
Technology: Laserscanner, placed at 98 different positions

Virtual reconstruction of the Roman emperor Pupienus

The Competence Center for Cultural Heritage Digitization digitized a bust of the Roman emperor Pupienus in 3D. Based on the 3D model, missing parts could be mirrored and virtually reconstructed. They were then printed in 3D and fixed with a magnet technology.

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© Private collection in North Germany / 3D model and rendering video: Fraunhofer IGD
Location: Private collection in North Germany
Date: 238 AD
Technology: CultArm3D

Egyptian Relief Fragment

The 3D model was created during a measurement campaign in the atrium of the Albertinum, SKD Dresden. The digitization was taking place in the context of the project “Fraunhofer Innovations for Cultural Heritage” of the Research Alliance Cultural Heritage (members: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, Leibniz-Gemeinschaft, Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden).

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Egyptian relief fragment with the Sed festival (Hebsed): Enthroned pharaoh with scourge © Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden / 3D model and rendering video: Fraunhofer IGD
https://skd-online-collection.skd.museum/Details/Index/1296232
Location: Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Sculpture Collection
Date: Egypt, 5th Dynasty, 2504-2347 B.C.
Technology: semiautomatic photogrammetric acquisition with Nikon D610 + 50mm

Pergamon Altar in 3D

The Pergamon Altar in Berlin was scanned in cooperation with the Antiquities Collection of the Berlin State Museums (Antikensammlung der Staatliche Museen zu Berlin). The result is an elaborated 3D model of the more than 2000-year-old Hellenistic altar. The Pergamon Altar’s 3D model is available to the public via an online viewer and the entire architectural ensemble can be examined in detail. This virtual representation also offers information on the iconographic program.

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© Pergamonmuseum, SMB / 3D model and rendering video: Fraunhofer IGD
Location: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Pergamonmuseum
Date: unknown
Technology: semiautomatic photogrammetric acquisition with Nikon D610 + 35mm

Goethe-Schiller-Gruppe (Ernst Rietschel)

The 3D model was created in the restoration workshop of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, which is together with the Fraunhofer IGD, partner of the Research Alliance Cultural Heritage, founded by the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, Leibniz-Gemeinschaft, Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz.

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© Skulpturensammlung SKD / 3D model and rendering video: Fraunhofer IGD
https://skd-online-collection.skd.museum/Details/Index/1296232
Location: Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Sculpture Collection
Date: 1856
Technology: semiautomatic photogrammetric acquisition with Nikon D610 + 50mm

Selection of 3D models

The video shows a selection of 3D models of objects from the Museum of Natural History Berlin, Museum Bensheim and the Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung as well as a replica of the Nofertiti.

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© 3D model and rendering video: Fraunhofer IGD
Technology: CultLab3D

Two wooden figures and a crucifix in 3D

With the help of non-contact 3D scanning techniques, the Competence Center for Cultural Heritage Digitization scanned two wooden figures and a crucifix in 3D for the Archbishop’s Diocesan Museum in Paderborn, which were then physically replicated.
The more than 800-year- old wooden figures are St. Liborius (left side of the door), St. Kilian (right side of the door) and the crucifix (tympanum) which can be found at the Paradise Portal of the Paderborn Cathedral. The replicas will replace the originals during the exhibition planned for 2018.

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© Erzbischöfliches Diözesanmuseum Paderborn / 3D models and rendering video: Fraunhofer IGD
Location: Erzbischöfliches Diözesanmuseum Paderborn
Date:
Technology: semiautomatic photogrammetric acquisition with NIKON D610 +
AF-S NIKKOR 50mm and Laserscanner (FARO Focus3D X130)