When a Professor wanted to explore an object in the art museum with their course, but the students could not touch it (for obvious reasons – it is really old!) The Bowdoin Maker Space came to the rescue by creating a 3D scan of the object and then printing it in resin (SLA) and in PLA. So the students visited the Bowdoin College Museum of Art to view the original object under the watchful eye of the curator, and then were able to get a sense of the tactile object by interacting with the facsimiles that we created.
3D-printed etching press
From: https://openpressproject.com
Open Press Project is the first 3D-printed etching press … and won‘t be the last! Everyone who has access to a 3D printer can produce their own fully functional DIY press and print their own etchings, dry-points or engravings. Woodcuts, linocuts and other relief printing techniques work, too! The plans are free, so with only 5 € of material costs it is also the world’s most inexpensive press!
Assyrian king Ashurnasirpal II
Created in 27 pieces using Photogrammetry and LuBan by David Israel of Academic Technology & Consulting for the Exhibition:
Palace Reliefs from Kalhu (Nimrud) https://www.bowdoin.edu/art-museum/exhibitions/2016/assyrian-reliefs.html
