Access to humanity’s past is crucial to understand the present in the larger historical context. With modern 3D scanning and 3D printing technologies, this access, previously only made available in museums or through research institutions, is becoming increasingly democratized. And the MicroPasts project, funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council, is doing its part to allow people to digitally explore the artifacts of the British Museum.
In a joint effort between UCL Institute of Archaeology and the British Museum, MicroPasts is using 3D photogrammetry and crowdsourcing to create a library of 3D models of historic artifacts. …
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