HOT SPRINGS -- After a favorable first attempt, members of National Park College's Makerspace program recently returned to the studio of local artist Longhua Xu to offer continued high-tech assistance ...

Editor’s Note: This article was produced in collaboration with the Arts & Culture MA concentration at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. As museums look at 3D scanning as a way to ...

In France during the mid-to-late 1800s, one could go into François Willème’s studio, sit for a photo session consisting of 24 cameras arranged in a circle around the subject, and in a matter of days ...

3D scanning is important because the ability to digitize awkward or troublesome shapes from the real world can really hit the spot. One can reconstruct objects by drawing them up in CAD, but when ...

3D scanning technology is being used to examine and replicate classic works of art. It's raising some ethical questions about what it means to preserve authenticity and democratize access in an age ...

In 1998, the late Paul Allen of Microsoft paid a group of students and faculty from Stanford and the University of Washington to travel to Florence to obtain 3D scans of sculptures by Michelangelo.