{"id":42359,"date":"2021-06-08T06:28:32","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T04:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/botland.com.pl\/blog\/print-yourself-a-work-of-art-with-scan-the-world-art-repository\/"},"modified":"2021-06-08T06:28:32","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T04:28:32","slug":"print-yourself-a-work-of-art-with-scan-the-world-art-repository","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/botland.store\/blog\/print-yourself-a-work-of-art-with-scan-the-world-art-repository\/","title":{"rendered":"Print yourself a work of art with Scan the World art repository"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time:<\/span> 2<\/span> min.<\/span><\/span>

Works of art are just timeless. Regardless of the development of technology, they delight us for… over 40,000 years.<\/b><\/p>\n

And now an amazing alternative has emerged. For free.<\/b><\/p>\n

Man, art and progress<\/h2>\n

For a long time the Lion Man found in 1939 in the Swabian Jurassic and later exhibited in the Ulm Museum in Germany was considered the oldest work of art. It is dated to be about 40 thousand years old. Commonly associated European cave paintings\u00a0 are actually quite a bit younger – their “age” is said to be in the range of 14,000-21,000 years. In fact, Lion Man in December 2019 dethroned … a painting dated at 44 thousand years, but from the Indonesian island of Sulawesi.<\/p>\n

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Rock paintings in karst caves, Sulawesi, Indonesia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And now a quick jump back in time. The first 3D printing technique was only developed in 1984. Today, thanks to its achievements, we can admire countless spatial objects. Our regular readers and 3D printing enthusiasts know all too well how amazing forms can be achieved with simply prepared models beforehand. The site presented today is too magnificent not to be featured – a true art center beating to the beat of the world’s largest and most famous museums.<\/p>\n

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Lion-Man, Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg, Germany<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Scan the World – works of art in an open source museum<\/h2>\n

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Scan the World<\/a><\/b> is an ambitious, community-generated initiative on the My Mini Factory website, whose mission is to share sculptures and cultural artifacts. All of which can be 3D printed. 3D scanning technologies have thus created a publicly accessible ecosystem of digital cultural heritage. Communities are encouraged to share photographs of their reproductions and the stories that accompany the works. In this way, one of the cultural capitals of the modern version is born.<\/p>\n

The largest digital repository of 3D art in the world<\/h4>\n

In the collection of Scan The World we can find works that belong to the collections of renowned institutions such as Louvre, The British Museum, SMK Statens Museum for Kunst in Copenhagen or Mus\u00e9e des Augustins in Toulouse. It also has the patronage of the University of Cambridge, Victoria & Albert Museum, BBC, The Times, Financial Times and Open Culture, among others. Truly a wide-ranging initiative. As of April 2019, the digital museum already had 16,000 “exhibits” (uploaded artifacts as ready-to-download 3D printing files) and more than 50 supporting institutions, enjoyed more than 100 million visits from internet users and about 4,000 downloads per day. Now there are more than 18,000 scanned and processed models and collections continue to grow. Scan the World offers solutions such as:<\/p>\n