Hi, Here are some of the scans I made at the Guimet museum a few weeks ago. I haven’t shown all of last year’s yet so I’ll try to fix that here. The goal of these scans would be to be able to recreate their original environment, to recreate their polychromy, to put them in mood, or even to produce less historical scenes of a sublimated universe… which will probably be the case until I have more information on their own history.
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The interesting fact is that I have already tried to scan some of his statues with the revopoint Range 1 scanner with a phone last year but I lacked technique at the time, especially the pillar that I had scanned by face and not in a circular way making it particularly difficult to assemble. The main advantage of the miraco is that where before I needed several scans I was able to do them in a single shot !
Very nice @Singaii
Thank you for sharing
I’m impressed. The only museum in the Los Angeles area that allows cameras (in some areas) has almost all of the collections behind glass. I just don’t have the same opportunities to scan them as you.
I fully understand the frustration: for the scans that I show, there are ten times more than I can’t process due to lack of access.
The Guimet Museum has a large part of its collection of statues just placed on pedestals, these statues are sometimes monumental and even if they are accessible, scanning them is not easy. The statue of the Bodhisattva measures only 1m20 but on its stand in presentation, this places it quite high.
I tried other museums in Paris like the Museum of First Arts Quai Branly but there, the pieces being mainly made of wood, they are behind thick windows or on inaccessible podiums. I plan my visits in advance but sometimes I find myself in front of an empty stele, the statue having been removed for conservation.
I would very much like to have privileged access to certain pieces, to know if they included polychromy, to know the environment in which they were originally located. It remains very complicated to find this information as a simple amateur.
The Revo scanner helps me take pictures in museums, but there are also many statues accessible in gardens and parks, so photogrammetry is easier to implement in these cases.
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