by CosmoWenman
This is the Berlin Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection's full-color, 6.4 million-triangle 3D scan of the Bust of Nefertiti.
I was able to obtain this data after a three-year freedom of information effort directed at the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, which oversees Berlin State Museums. This story explains how I got the files: reason.com/2019/11/13/a-german-museum-tried-to-hide-this-stunning-3d-scan-of-an-iconic-egyptian-artifact-today-you-can-see-it-for-the-first-time/ . Please share the story via Twitter.
I'm sharing the files here exactly as I received them from the museum, under the CC BY-NC-SA license they assigned to them, and which the museum digitally carved into the underside of the 3D model. The files are contained in the .zip file at "Thing Files" link above this description, or at this direct download link: thingiverse.com/download:7252286
All my correspondence with the museum and its parent organization is available at cosmowenman.com/nefertiti-3d-scan-foia-project
I'll post links to interesting news coverage and others' commentary here as it develops.
My current project: Musée Rodin's unpublished scans
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[Note: The images above showing Nefertiti against a black background, with blue lines on her face, are my own. I rendered them from the scan; they did not come from the museum.]
Attribution info for the original scan, as specified in the museum's PDF, included in the .zip file:
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Preußischer Kulturbesitz
Bust of Queen Nefertiti, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Ident. Nr. ÄM 21300.
Statue | Armana | dat. Amenhotep IV / Akhenaten, 1351 BC / 1334 BC | limestone, painted; gypsum plaster, rock crystal, wax; 49,0 x 24,5 x 35,0 cm | Donation James Simon, 1920.
http://www.smb-digital.de
http://www.smb-digital.de/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=606189&viewType=detailView
3D-Model by Trigon Art, Berlin 2008 | Structured-light 3D scan, 2008.
© 3D Model: Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz | ID No.: aem_aem21300_3dsl01_mo08-03_p.obj. Copyright restrictions apply.
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