Restoring railways is a complex and expensive undertaking. Replacing individual signs and plaques is particularly difficult, as these are also popular with collectors, which can significantly increase their price – if these spare parts are even still available. 3D printing can provide a cost-effective solution here and help to restore the overall visual impression of…Continue reading3D printing: locomotive plate replicas
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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
I know this is not a typical archaeological topic, but I am a massive fan of Star Trek and thought it would be fun to reconstruct a movie prop from the beginning of SCIFI movies. So please forgive me for not staying on topic and enjoy the model. Next time it will be archaeology again,…Continue readingReconstructing a 60s Star Trek phaser rifle
A quick attempt at reconstructing a medieval motte, a hybrid between a castle and a fortified house. Buildings like this existed throughout Germany and provided security for smaller villages. Everything was created in Blender 3D 2.79.Continue readingSHORT Post – 3D concept of a medieval Motte
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SHORT Post – the mask from Uivar
This year I’m participating in the Sculpting January Challenge. The goal is to become a better sculptor by creating 31 models in one month. On January 2nd, the theme was masks, so I tried to recreate the mask from Uivar (Romania). The object was found in the early 2000s during an excavation by the Free…Continue readingSHORT Post – the mask from Uivar
This article is a guest article by Martin Wagner. In it, he presents some reconstructions of glass objects that were reconstructed in AutoCAD. Glass is a particularly fragile material that is usually found in a very shattered state during excavations. It is rare that a complete vessel can be reconstructed from the fragments found. The…Continue readingGuestpost: “glass reconstruction in 3D”
Update 29.05.17 Hello, if you run into dead ends in the tutorial or if anything is unclear, I would appreciate a short feedback to explain these problems here and avoid them in a subsequent video. Original post In this post, I would like to briefly show how a vessel can be reconstructed into a complete…Continue readingPottery reconstruction with Blender 3D
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3D infographic urn burials
A new year and already new projects in the making. Currently, I am trying to visualize the most common Urn burials by type in a kind of infographic. Then it’s finished, it could be a useful tool to give a first overview of this type of burial from an excavators point of view. For references…Continue reading3D infographic urn burials
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Early Iron – the Alaca Dagger
Iron Age in the near East Iron is still one of the most important materials and pillars of our civilization. His discovery and the first regular use as a raw material for tools, weapons, armor and building materials has led in the past to such comprehensive social changes that a complete epoch has been named…Continue readingEarly Iron – the Alaca Dagger
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Cloisonné Technique Animation
making a technical animation Work in progress Since my first semester, I’m fascinated by the finds from the migration period and from the early Middle Ages. Especially the cloisonné worked objects are interesting from an esthetical point as well as a technical. This is why I would like to make an animation of such an…Continue readingCloisonné Technique Animation