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How 3D technology is used to capture Chinese

traditional culture

3D printing technology helps to teach, tell a story or two instructors, the disciplinarian and the chief.
represent a work of art through models, replicas and
miniatures. A team of students led by Professor Nan  Students welcomed both Confucius and the new
Yu at Guangzhou Academy of Fine arts applied 3D principal.
scanning and 3D printing technologies to their artwork  After school had started, the new principal, the magis-
creation. They reproduced the scene of appointing trate, and both instructors were invited for a drink by
Tso Tsung-Tang, one of the four prominent ministers the chief of the academy.
in the late Qing Dynasty, to be the principal of Lujiang
Academy.  Tso Tsung-Tang was invited, a few days later, to the
Xingxian Hall for a banquet
The miniature scene
3D Scanning
The scene represents miniatures of 10 centimeters that
are finely sculptured and appeared lively. Technically speaking, once the team members wore the
costumes, they collected 3D data by 3D scanning using
Design Using the 3D scanner EinScan-Pro from SHINING 3D.
Professor Nan Yu divided the miniature scene into five 3D Models
parts. It must be said that, according to the tradition,
the appointment of a principal by an academy at that Secondly, with the 3D data, they used data modeling
time in China involved five stages. In this particular case: to create the background scenes.
(photo des 5 étapes)
3D printing & coloring
The chief of Lujiang Academy asked the magistrate to
deliver the letter of appointment, so that the appointment Thereafter, characters were 3D printed out with SLA
ceremony could be prepared. technology and the art piece was colored.
 Tso Tsung-Tang joined the banquet (the next spring
at the academy), accompanied by the magistrate, the

Magazine / February 2018