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The digital Michelangelo project: 3D scanning of large statues
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Proceedings of the 27th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques table of contents
Pages: 131 - 144  
Year of Publication: 2000
ISBN:1-58113-208-5
Authors
Marc Levoy  Computer Science Department, Stanford University
Kari Pulli  Computer Science Department, Stanford University
Brian Curless  Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington
Szymon Rusinkiewicz  Computer Science Department, Stanford University
David Koller  Computer Science Department, Stanford University
Lucas Pereira  Computer Science Department, Stanford University
Matt Ginzton  Computer Science Department, Stanford University
Sean Anderson  Computer Science Department, Stanford University
James Davis  Computer Science Department, Stanford University
Jeremy Ginsberg  Computer Science Department, Stanford University
Jonathan Shade  Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington
Duane Fulk  Cyberware Inc.
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SIGGRAPH: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques
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ACM Press/Addison-Wesley Publishing Co.  New York, NY, USA
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ABSTRACT

We describe a hardware and software system for digitizing the shape and color of large fragile objects under non-laboratory conditions. Our system employs laser triangulation rangefinders, laser time-of-flight rangefinders, digital still cameras, and a suite of software for acquiring, aligning, merging, and viewing scanned data. As a demonstration of this system, we digitized 10 statues by Michelangelo, including the well-known figure of David, two building interiors, and all 1,163 extant fragments of the Forma Urbis Romae, a giant marble map of ancient Rome. Our largest single dataset is of the David - 2 billion polygons and 7,000 color images. In this paper, we discuss the challenges we faced in building this system, the solutions we employed, and the lessons we learned. We focus in particular on the unusual design of our laser triangulation scanner and on the algorithms and software we developed for handling very large scanned models.


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Marc Levoy: colleagues
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Brian Curless: colleagues
Szymon Rusinkiewicz: colleagues
David Koller: colleagues
Lucas Pereira: colleagues
Matt Ginzton: colleagues
Sean Anderson: colleagues
James Davis: colleagues
Jeremy Ginsberg: colleagues
Jonathan Shade: colleagues
Duane Fulk: colleagues