This model is a repost of data released under the CC0 dedication by SMK - Statens Museum for Kunst:
https://www.myminifactory.com/object/3d-print-head-of-michelangelo-s-david-52645

> Digitised using an Artec Eva.
>
>This is a scan from a cast of the original David by Michelangelo, a masterpiece of Renaissance art. The cropped bust was crafted in 1899 (Beckett number 756).

Optimised using https://rapidcompact.com/ to reduce facecount and generate normal and occlusion maps.

Head Of Michelangelo's David, Optimised

A quick n' dirty (as usual) test in Blender at retopologizing and manually (pun intended) rigging a great scan: ["Hand"](https://skfb.ly/6GW88) by [Artec 3D](https://sketchfab.com/artec3d), available under CC-attribution. 

The base mesh used for the retopology is [Low Poly Human Hands (All Quads)](https://skfb.ly/6NUy9) from [Jeremy E. Grayson](https://sketchfab.com/JeremyGrayson), also available under CC-Attribution.

Based on an original "concept" by Michelangelo, from the Sistine chapel's ceiling ;)

![Creation of adam picture](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Michelangelo_-_Creation_of_Adam_%28cropped%29.jpg/800px-Michelangelo_-_Creation_of_Adam_%28cropped%29.jpg)

The Creation of Adam

Quick lowpoly rustic chair. I used this scan from Artec 3D as reference: https://skfb.ly/Rx8y

Modelled in Maya, textured with Quixel.

Free for your enjoyment. :)

Rustic chair

A lion skull from the Auckland Museum CITES handling collection. Sample scan testing the Artec EVA scanner.

This model is featured in the official Sketchfab VR app:

[![](https://forum.sketchfab.com/uploads/db4890/original/2X/5/5a2e2dbd86ddcbce1cad8fb53aefc0a7cc0506c3.jpg)](https://sketchfab.com/virtual-reality)

Lion Skull

3D Scan of Godzilla toy from NECA, based on Legendary Pictures' 2019 *Godzilla: King of the Monsters* and part of the Monsterverse.

5/21/2020: Re-Uploaded with updated Texture.

3D scanned in color with the Artec Space Spider 3D scanner. Total time spent 3D scanning: 5 minutes. After scanning in initial position standing upright on turntable, the figure was flipped on its left and right sides to capture under the tail and feet. 

Total time processing in Artec Studio software: about 3 hours. This articulated figure was rigid during flipping, however the tail segments moved slightly. In order to preserve this detail and fix the movement in post, the raw data was duplicated and individual tail segments were isolated so they could independelty be repositioned relative to the initial upright scan.

Godzilla 2019 Figurine 3D Scan

This Stegosaurus skeleton from the Denver Museum of Nature & Science is more than 26 feet long and over nine feet tall. The bony beast is a permanent display with steel shaped around it, welded in place, and puttied together, making it impossible to take apart. Which means it was super difficult to scan! Triebold Paleontology, Inc. scanned the dinosaur using Artec Space Spider and Artec Studio software. The scanning involved crawling into the rib cage, then perching atop a step ladder just to reach the peaks of the big fan-shaped plates on the dinosaur’s back. The scanner captured everything from the nose to the tail spikes. Beyond aligning the scans, Artec Studio also reduced the mesh size to the desired level for manipulating the 3D model and 3D printing. Scanning time: 1 week - Processing time: 2 months (629 individual scans across 71 scan projects).

Read more here https://www.artec3d.com/cases/3d-scanning-one-piece-dinosaur-skeleton-minute-detail

Stegosaurus Skeleton

left canine humerus (humerus)

size of the specimen: 154 x 44 x 37 mm

3D scanning performed with the structured light scanner “Artec Space Spider”

humerus (humerus) dog

3D scan of Franz Viehböck's Sokol space suit that he wore on his flight to the space station MIR. Franz Viehböck studied electronics engineering at the Vienna University of Technology, and became the first and as of today only Austrian Astronaut. On the 2nd of October, 1991, the Sojus-TM-13-rocket started in Baikonur (KAZ). The commander of the Austromir mission was the Russian Alexander Volkov and the third man was the Kazakh Toktar Aubakirov. 

The space suit is no longer exhibited at the Natural History Museum Vienna, but was on display from 2015–2021. It will be put on display at the Technical Museum Vienna. We want to thank Franz Viehböck for the opportunity to scan and present this piece of Austrian history! 

Find out more about the NHMW [here](http://www.nhm-wien.ac.at/en).

Find out more about Franz Viehböck’s life [here](https://en.franzviehboeck.com/). 

Scanned and edited by G. Herbst-Kiss, G. Stöckle, C. Goldmann, J. Muhsil & A. Haider (NHMW)

Scanner: Artec Leo. Infrastructure funded by the FFG.

Franz Viehböck's Sokol Space Suit

3D Color Scan of a Christmas Tree with the Artec Leo 3D scanner.

Time to scan with Artec Leo 3D scanner: 10 minutes
Time to process in Artec Studio software: 2 hours

Christmas Tree 3D Scan

Scan of a bronze statue picturing a Chinese dragon with a pearl - his symbol of power. Captured with Artec Spider https://www.artec3d.com/3d-scanner/artec-spider .

Dragon with pearl

3D scan of a fossil human skull excavated in the Mladeč Caves, Czech Republic, in 1881. With an absolute age of ca. 31,000 years, the Mladeč 1 skull is one of the oldest securely dated *Homo sapiens* finds in Europe. It provides rare insights into the morphology of our species in the European Upper Paleolithic. 

The Mladeč 1 skull is Number 47 of the NHM Top 100. The valuable original is not on display in the exhibition halls, but a cast can be found in Hall 14 of the NHM Vienna.

**Specimen**: Mladeč 1 skull

**Inventory number**: NHMW-ANTHRO-OSTE-5454

**Collection**: Natural History Museum Vienna, Anthropology Dept. (curator: Sabine Eggers)

Find out more about the NHMW [here](http://www.nhm-wien.ac.at/en).

Scanned and edited by Andrea Stadlmayr, Anna Haider, Viola Winkler (NHMW)

Scanner: Artec Space Spider. Infrastructure funded by the FFG.

Mladeč 1 Skull (NHMW-ANTHRO-OSTE-5454)

3D scan of a Terror-bird model from the species *Paraphysornis brasiliensis*. Members of the Phorusrhacidae family are commonly known under the term "terror birds". Species of these apex predators could reach a height up to 3 meters! They lived mainly in South America from the early Tertiary (55 million years ago) until the late glacial period. 

This model can be found in Hall 9 at the NHM Vienna.

**Specimen**: *Paraphysornis brasiliensis* (Alvarenga, 1982)

**Inventory number**: NHMW-GEO-2012/0007/0001

**Collection**: Natural History Museum Vienna, Geology & Paleontology Dept., Vertebrate Coll. (curator: Ursula Göhlich)

Find out more about the NHMW [here](http://www.nhm-wien.ac.at/en).

Scanned and edited by Nikola Brodtmann, Anna Haider & Viola Winkler (NHMW)

Scanner: Artec Leo. Infrastructure funded by the FFG.

Terror Bird (NHMW-GEO-2012/0007/0001)

Cranium and antlers of a male white-tailed deer *(Odocoileus virginianus)*

This species is native to the Americas, as far north as Yukon and as far south as Peru. It has been introduced in Europe, New Zealand, and Caribbean islands.
A population of 700 white-tailed deer in Seneca, New York carries a recessive gene for an all-white coat. About 300 of the 700 deer express this gene.

More Info on this species here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-tailed_deer

Accession number: 113.18

Captured with an Artec Spider 3D Scanner
https://www.artec3d.com/portable-3d-scanners/artec-spider-v2

White-Tailed Deer Skull With Antlers

[Original HR object](https://www.artec3d.com/3d-models/napoleon) (6.8M tris) captured by [Artec 3D](https://www.artec3d.com/) ( [on sketchfab](https://skfb.ly/RWsK) - 200k tris).

![Imgur](https://i.imgur.com/8kJkZgs.jpg)

# Process

* The initial mesh was remeshed to an intermediate object with Meshlab (quadric edge collapse decimation) and **mmgs** (6.8M -> 950k tris)
* Details (ropes and sword) were splitted from the horse body (mark sharp edges -> edge split -> separate), and batch remeshed for better results.
* The resulting meshes (70k tris total) were then manually unwrapped (+manifold edges seams) and merged.

# Material

The material was created from scratch on the high resolution object before being baked to 2K textures:

* Bronze patina on the top
* Mix of metals on the body
* Smoother metal on the edges

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*Cycles material layout*

![](https://i.imgur.com/BBpRJg7.jpg)

*Blueprint*

![](https://i.imgur.com/p0yLYdo.jpg)

Equestrian statue of Napoleon

The potto (*Perodicticus potto*) is a small (30–40cm) species of primate closely related to lorises and lemurs that inhabits the rainforest canopies of tropical Africa. The potto is nocturnal and feeds mostly on fruit, but has strong jaws that enable it to eat tree gums that are too tough for many other animals; around 10% of its diet consists of insects. 

Whilst moving it is usually very quiet, but has few natural predators as large carnivorous mammals cannot reach the forest canopy, and co-occurring birds of prey hunt during the day. If threatened, the potto can use its specially sharpened and elongated neck vertebrae to butt at an opponent. 

This specimen forms part of the Lapworth’s Humphreys Collection. Digitisation was carried out using an Artec Spider 3D scanner by Rachel Kruft Welton.

Potto Skull BIRUG 18612

Surface scan of the skull of a young bull African Forest Elephant from the D’Arcy Thompson Zoology Museum at the University of Dundee.

African Forest elephant - Loxodonta cyclotis - skull of a young bull. DUNUC 1971. Width=72cm.

Scanned with an Artec Eva surface scanner. The resulting file is exported as an obj. and imported into Zbrush. The texture is captured during the scanning process and converted to Polypaint in Zbrush.

We’d love to hear from you if you download or print our models, especially if you use them in education and outreach.

African Forest Elephant skull

Surface scan of the skull of a bear from the D’Arcy Thompson Zoology Museum at the University of Dundee.

Ursus arctos - Brown Bear. DUNUC 2030. Length= 43cm. Acquired by D'Arcy Thompson in Kamchatka, Siberia, during his Bering Sea expeditions of 1896-7.

Scanned with an Artec Eva surface scanner. The resulting file is exported as an obj. and imported into Zbrush. The texture is captured during the scanning process and converted to Polypaint in Zbrush.

We’d love to hear from you if you download or print our models, especially if you use them in education and outreach.

Brown Bear skull

3D scan of a Plateosaurus (*Plateosaurus trossingensis*) skeleton. *Plateosaurus trossingensis* was an herbivore, “prosauropod” dinosaur with a small skull but a long neck and tail. This skeleton consists of original bones, as well as 3D print-reconstructions; details can be seen in the graphic below. 

![Plateosaurus](https://verlag.nhm-wien.ac.at/data/Sketchfab/Plateosaurus_Info.png)
© NHMW

The skeleton is on display in Hall 7 of the NHM Vienna.

**Species**: *Plateosaurus trossingensis* Fraas, 1913 

**Collection**: Natural History Museum Vienna, Geology & Paleontology Dept., Vertebrate Coll. (curator: Ursula Göhlich) – Permanent loan from the [Dinosaur Museum in Frick](https://sauriermuseum-frick.ch/en/)

Find out more about the NHMW [here](http://www.nhm-wien.ac.at/en).

Scanned and edited by A.Festi, C.Guerin, A.Haider, P.Tranchet, V.Winkler (NHMW)

Normal map generated in xNormal (added June 2024).

Scanner: Artec Leo. Infrastructure funded by the FFG.

Plateosaurus Skeleton

3D Scan of Godzilla toy from NECA, based onToho Pictures’ *Shin Godzilla*

3D Scanned with Artec Space Spider

Shin Godzilla Figurine 3D Scan

3D scan of an original fossilized skeleton of a giant deer (*Megaloceros giganteus*) found in Ireland from the Late Pleistocene (ca. 12,000 years old). The males had a shoulder height of around 2.1 meters and their antlers are the largest known in any deer with a width up to 4 meters. The giant deer disappeared around 11,700 years ago in Europe, like many other animals from the Ice Age.

The skeleton of the giant deer can be found in Hall 16 at the NHM Vienna. 

**Specimen**: Giant deer or Irish elk, *Megaloceros giganteus* (Blumenbach, 1799) 

**Inventory number**: NHMW-GEO-1876/0030/0003

**Collection**: Natural History Museum Vienna, Geology & Paleontology Dept., Vertebrate Coll. (curator: Ursula Göhlich)

Find out more about the NHMW [here](http://www.nhm-wien.ac.at/en).

Scanned and edited by Nikola Brodtmann, Anna Haider & Viola Winkler (NHMW)

Scanner: Artec Leo. Infrastructure funded by the FFG.

Giant Deer (NHMW-GEO-1876/0030/0003)

The giant isopod (*Bathynomus giganteus*) is a species of aquatic crustacean and a cousin to terrestrial "pill bugs" or "roly polies" that are commonly found under logs. These animals are found in cold waters with a depth between 310 to 2140 meters (1,020–7,020 ft) in the West Atlantic, including the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean. The unusually large size of these isopods has been attributed to an effect called deep-sea gigantism, where invertebrates living in cold deep waters tend to grow larger and have longer lifespans (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_isopod).

More info here: https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/giant-isopods-curious-crustaceans-on-the-ocean-floor.html

Accession #: 93.16

Captured with Artec Spider 3D Scanner
https://www.artec3d.com/portable-3d-scanners/artec-spider-v2

Giant Isopod

Head Sculpture scanned with Artec EVA lite.
Scanning 30 seconds, Autopilot processing 80 seconds.

Head Sculpture

This coin was thick enough to stand its side and was captured in just two scans with Artec Space Spider. The second scan was to cover the side that the coin stood on.

Scanning time: 2 min

Processing time: 8 min

You can download this model from our website 
https://www.artec3d.com/3d-models/chinese-coin

Chinese Coin

3D scan of an original fossilized skeleton of a saber-toothed cat (*Smilodon populator*) from the late Pleistocene. It was found in Río Areco in Argentina and is about 40,000 years old. 

The skeleton of the saber-toothed cat can be found in Hall 16 at the NHM Vienna. 

**Specimen**: Saber-toothed cat, *Smilodon populator* (Lund, 1842) 

**Inventory number**: NHMW-GEO-1910/0102/0001

**Collection**: Natural History Museum Vienna, Geology & Paleontology Dept., Vertebrate Coll. (curator: Ursula Göhlich)

Find out more about the NHMW [here](http://www.nhm-wien.ac.at/en).

Scanned and edited by Nikola Brodtmann, Anna Haider & Viola Winkler (NHMW)

Scanner: Artec Leo. Infrastructure funded by the FFG.

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