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3D scans for better profile pictures

On excavations, 3D scans can be used for better profile images and enable perfect distortion-free profile images in a short time. This Agisoft Metashape workflow describes how you can achieve this yourself.Continue reading3D scans for better profile pictures

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3D Scan – Lichterstein from Brandenburg

The 34 cm diameter plate probably originally had 8 bowls into which oil or tallow and a wick each could be filled and served as a safe candlestick.
The 3D scan was carried out in the city archaeology department with the kind permission of the archaeologists there.Continue reading3D Scan – Lichterstein from Brandenburg

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2400 Year Old Wooden Wheel 3D Scanned and Digitally Reassembled

Why do you actually need 3D scans as an archaeologist? I have the originals in the magazine and can examine the original if in doubt! This attitude is widespread and is often expressed. And as an archaeologist, I can absolutely understand this attitude. Nevertheless, I would like to outline the advantages of 3D scanning using…Continue reading2400 Year Old Wooden Wheel 3D Scanned and Digitally Reassembled

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Block salvage as 3D scans I

Some block salvages of the last years are presented in these posts and their further processing into new visualizations is examined.Continue readingBlock salvage as 3D scans I

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Recording features through the web

from feature to model In this year’s may, a friend of mine asked me if it would be possible to make a 3D model from one of their newly excavated features. The mentioned feature was a complex early industrial structure, that was supposed to get digitized via photogrammetry. Within seconds, I agreed, and would have…Continue readingRecording features through the web

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A 3D surface in 82 megapixels

A typical day at an Excavation For several months now, I’m back working for an archaeological excavation company. We are currently working on a larger scale road construction project, on which we have to document immense areas and surfaces in a large scale. All who participated in such an excavation already know the main problem…Continue readingA 3D surface in 82 megapixels

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a modern well and hoard

Tragedy at the End of WWII In the last days of WWII the owners of an butcher shop had buried their most precious tableware. Shortly after that, the hole street burned to the ground in the last sowjet ambush on the city.a few years after this incident, the rubble got removed and the street with…Continue readinga modern well and hoard