Casting an Aluminum Souvenir, Scan, Print and Cast Aluminum

As a 3D tourist, taking a photograph is sooo last century. Now, even our phones are equipped with 3D scanners, although not yet powerful enough to do what I show in the video, they soon will be. Calling into question why do we not capture our vacation memories in three dimensions Since moving to the Detroit area in 2005, I have always enjoyed walks on the public grounds at Cranbrook. Daniela and I have been partial to Marshall Fredericks s sculpture The Thinker and that is the subject for my trip into 3D digital tourism. This sculpture was installed outside the Cranbrook Museum in 1940 as a sort of tongueincheek reply to the more famous The Thinker by Auguste Rodin, installed outside of the Detroit Institute of Arts just down the road. For this video, I will use a Revopoint POP scanner to capture the sculpture in 3 dimensions, then print a verification in carbon fiber and ultimately cast an aluminum snapshot to live permanently on a shelf in our home.