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Sculpture Re-creation

This is Flora and Priapos, 17th century sculptures by  Pietro Bernini and his son Gian Lorenzo Bernini, created for the main entrance to Cardinal Scipione Borgeheses' Villa Borgese. The originals are now on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, but have become so fragile that it is  impossible to replicate them by conventional methods. So the Met had the seven foot sculptures laser digitized in place.
Using that data (94 megabytes!) we milled these very accurate re-creation in 6 LB urethane foam. The foam sculptures will then be molded at the Met and the final detail will be worked into the resulting plaster pieces by the museum's artist. Those plaster sculptures will then be molded again and the final pieces will be cast using resin filled with marble dust. 


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Foam Mock-ups

These full size models of automobiles were milled from 1lb. density EPS foam for Coleman & Associates. The data was acquired from Viewpoint Visualization, Inc. scaled to the clients specifications, then sectioned, cored and machined with a 4" wall thickness in order to stay below a 100 lbs. weight limit.


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Foundry pattern

This 45" frog was milled out 6 lb. Urethane foam for Norris Peterson Wildlife Art, and will eventually be one of a number of bronze sculptures at the Detroit zoo. The original clay maquette, measuring only 5 ¼", was laser digitized. The data was then scaled to the sculptor's specifications.
 


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Sculpture Enlargement

This 9' cougar is part of a sculpture enlargement for Kenneth Bunn. First a 20" wax maquette was laser digitized by Scansite . We then scaled their data up to the sculptor's specifications and 5 axis milled the cougar and it's rock base using EPS foam. The sculptor will then take our finished product, spread a thin layer of clay over the foam and work in the final detail prior to sending the piece to the foundry for bronze casting.

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Architectural patterns

Working from drawings or data acquired from Scansite by laser scanning original clay sculptures, these pieces for William Kreysler & Assoc. were machined from urethane foam to be used as patterns for molding.

 

 

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Tyrannosaurus Rex foot

This mirror image of the foot of Sue, the Tyrannosaurus Rex, along with one arm and some ribs, were created for the Chicago Field Museum to replace bones that were missing from the original fossil. They were machined from Renshape 350 using data acquired at Scansite by laser scanning  the opposite existing fossils.

 

 
Triceratops humerus

This Triceratops humerus (upper arm bone) for the Smithsonian Institution was machined from urethane foam and finished with latex house paint, using data acquired by digitizing the existing fossil. An additional mirror image humerus was machined in Renshape to act as a  replacement for the original fossil on display, which was not only deteriorating but from a smaller Triceratops
 

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Corporate Soap Box Derby car

Working from 2D data, we first built this car as a 3D CAD model, then machined it in EPS to be used as forms for fiber glassing. The finished vehicle was raced by Asyst Technologies, Inc. in a local charity event. 

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Lovely little piggy

This handsome fellow was created as an enlargement pattern for Lands End Sculpture Center in Colorado.

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