Transcript Sizing Up David

Sizing Up David
—Michelangelo’s Sculptures Rendered in 3-D
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Innovation
Replicated
• Many scholars believe Michelangelo
was a master of innovation.
• To make those great treasures
available to more of us, Marc Levoy,
associate professor from Stanford
university, developed The Digital
Michelangelo Project to make 3-D
computer archive of these famous
sculptures.
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Every inch of David
• a large scanner on a 20-foot truss
• a smaller scanner mounted on the end
of a robotic arm
• a third scanner stand back 300 feet
away
14 feet,3 inches tall
or 17 feet tall
?
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Learning His Tricks
• with the computer images, people can
examine every detail
• animate the sculptures to unmask
some tricks
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Putting the Pieces Together
• Levoy hopes the
research will help put
the pieces of a giant
map of ancient Rome
together
Something more
 Michelangelo
 Marc Levoy
Michelangelo
 Michelangelo di
Lodovico Buonarroti
Simoni (6 March 1475
– 18 February 1564),
commonly known as
Michelangelo, was an
Italian Renaissance
painter, sculptor,
architect, poet, and
engineer.
His famous works
• Moses
• David
• Pieta
• Unfinished
slaves
• ……
Moses
 Hebrew liberator, leader,
lawgiver, prophet, and historian
 In the sculpture, Moses is
depicted holding the tablets
of the Ten Commandments
David
 an ancient king
of Israel
Pieta
The Pieta (1499) is a masterpiece
of Renaissance sculpture by the
renowned artist Michelangelo
Buonarroti , housed in St. Peter's
Basilica in Vatican City. It is the
first of a number of works of the
same theme by the artist. The
statue was commissioned for the
French cardinal Jean de Billheres ,
who was a representative in Rome.
The statue was made for the
cardinal's funeral monument, but
was moved to its current location,
the first chapel on the right as
one enters the basilica, in the
18th century.
Unfinished slaves
Taddei Tondo
Madonna of Bruges
Dying Slave
Marc Levoy
• Personal data:
Born in New York City ;
Professor of Computer Science
and (jointly) Electrical
Engineering at Stanford
University ;
Bachelor's and Master's in
Architecture from
Cornell
University in
1976 and 1978;
PhD in Computer Science from
the University of North
Carolina in 1989.
The Digital Michelangelo Project
The logo
The team
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