Scanning Sculptures for a Digital Copy and Virtual Assembly

About the project

Scanning sculptures with the Shining 3D FreeScan TRIO

Industry: Cultural heritage. Client request: Creating a digital copy, virtual assembly. Equipment: Shining 3D FreeScan TRIO. 3D scanning time: 1 working day. Data processing time: 3 days.

Traditional archives usually contain drawings, photos and videos, but this is not always enough for restoration, especially if the object has suffered from fire or other factors.

Preserving and restoring monuments requires detailed work and high accuracy, which is exactly what 3D scanners can provide.

A digital copy makes it possible to study an object in detail from any angle and assess its condition

The sculpture “Dancer with a Finger at Her Chin”, scanned by an EXAMETRA specialist, has survived in rather poor condition. Thanks to iconographic materials, however, it is possible to see how it originally looked. 3D scanning helped not only to restore it but also to record the losses precisely and to plan further work.

Accurate copies make it possible to model restoration options, which is especially important when a sculpture has survived only in fragments.

During the restoration of the Griboyedov portrait, 3D models helped find the joining points of the sculpture's fragments, which significantly sped up the process.

And the powerful, accurate and convenient Shining 3D FreeScan TRIO helped us with all of this!

It will easily handle your tasks of scanning a wide variety of objects while delivering metrology-grade accuracy control, because it uses 26+5+1 blue laser lines and has an integrated photogrammetry module.

It offers multiple scanning modes, measurement accuracy from 0.020 mm, and adaptability to the object's material. In short, it is a ready-made solution for scanning objects with complex geometry.