As an application of this technology, we have embarked on a multi-year project to create a high-quality 3D computer archive of the sculptures and architecture of Michelangelo. As of this writing, we have scanned the David, the Unfinished Slaves, and the St. Matthew, all located in the Galleria dell'Accademia in Florence. In the coming weeks we will scan the statues and architecture of Michelang...

The paper presents an application for manually making replications of sculptures in a real material from a virtual representation of an original work. The application contributes to closely link the virtual and the real world. The technical solution uses virtual reality techniques for the guidance of gesture and constitutes an efficient alternative to current techniques used in art domain. The ...

The Michelangelo dynamic 3D scanner uses stereo rangefinding along with strobe illumination to capture 3D information at 25 frames per second. The configuration allows rapid motion within the capture volume to be frozen into a series of virtual sculptures. Textured strobe illumination is used for range data and plain strobe illumination for colour data. We present examples of data captured with...

Tissue engineering promises to replace and repair body organs but has largely been overlooked for artistic purposes. In the last 6 years, the authors have grown tissue sculptures, asemi-living objects,o by culturing cells on arti® cial scaffolds. The goal of this work is to culture and sustain for long periods tissue constructs of varying geometrical complexity and size, and by that process to ...

Different geometric realizations of topological Klein bottles are discussed and analyzed whether they can be smoothly transformed into one another and thus belong into the same regular homotopy class. Simple and distinct representatives for each of the four expected classes are introduced. In addition, novel and unusual geometries for Klein bottles are presented, some of them knotted, which may...

Keizo Ushio is a leading international stone sculptor whose work has introduced split tori and Möbius bands to the world on a grand scale. Starting with a simple circular torus or with more elaborate twisting bands, he drills a large number of closely spaced holes to form two strands, which may or may not be connected, depending on the overall rotation of the cutting void. In the case of a toru...

The leaf structure and micromorphology characterize plant species and reflex its interactions with the environment. Leaf epidermis sculptures aid high transpiration plants on light reflection. The form and distribution of epicuticular wax crystalloids are important to characterize the surface. Aiming to know the micromorphology and the ultrastructure of G. arborescens, G. pohlii and G. virgata,...