Posted on 03/18/2016 2:53:41 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Jan Nikolai Nelles and Nora Al-Badri, two artists, made headlines last month for announcing that they had sneaked into the Neues Museum in Berlin. They did not make the headlines for just sneaking into the museum. They had with them a hacked Kinect Sensor with which they performed an unauthorized 3D scan of the bust of Queen Nefertiti. If you have never heard about the iconic bust of Queen Nefertiti, you probably should read this. It is the most iconic artifact of the Egyptian Museum in Berlin. It is 3,300 years old and is made of limestone and painted and coated with stucco...
Nora said that the hacked scanner was given to them by a group of hackers. She also said that the hackers might’ve stolen the data that they scanned for creating high quality scans. Nora believes that it may have been due to a server hack or an inside job too. Experts have compared their digital scan to the scan that was done by the museum. Both of them look immensely similar and the possibility of a server hack is really high.
Experts have also raised concerns about the possibility of a heist. Meanwhile, Nora Al-Badri and Jan Nikolai displayed their 3D scans at a public event in Cairo. They believe that such an important piece of history that belongs to Egypt should stay in Egypt. Archaeologists of Germany had uncovered the bust of Queen Nefertiti in the early 20th Century and it was taken to Germany then. It has ever since remained in the Neues Museum in Berlin.
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You can’t keep artifacts safe in the M.E. so, they should remain in Germany or any other sane and settled society.
i’m embarrassed about what I thought they were talking about.
my bad.
Busted! Ashes to ashes, bust to dust, it all goes away in the end.
So, what is her cup size?
actually you can do the same thing with photometrics software... there a guy doing it the last few years for all the world’s museums creating 3D models for 3D printers
all you need is a camera and take a series of photographs of the object
See Photomodeler software
Digital data can also be ephemeral. Best to store multiple copies.....
Just license out 100% accurate scans of the darn thing already!
We have dozens of copies of Rodin’s “The Thinker”, and it hasn’t hurt people seeing the original at all. Most people are never going to get to Berlin, let alone this museum, so make some cash off of this in any way you can.
A perfect object for 3D printing!
The article implies that the perpetrators snagged the data from a museum server, rather than scanning it themselves.
Statue of Nefertiti
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/96897829458096933/
the simulated temporary body:
http://www.google.com/search?q=Little+Warsaw+Nefertiti&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&tbm=isch
http://www.theintellectualdevotional.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/little-warsaw-the-body-of-nefertiti.jpg
http://www.theintellectualdevotional.com/blog/2008/01/09/the-body-of-nefertiti/
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_RN2XNr6CWF8/SwkC8vFx1kI/AAAAAAAACIw/71MpgPPFMZs/s1600/nefertit_installation.jpg
http://judithweingarten.blogspot.com/2009/11/two-timing-nefertiti-part-ii.html
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RN2XNr6CWF8/Swj_cou4w1I/AAAAAAAACIo/QZQvAL8-Z2E/s1600/Nefertitibody.jpg
Shouldn't two copies of the same object be substantially similar?
For years, mapmakers have introduced small, but identifiable flaws on their product to detect copyright violations. The museum should have inserted a digital flaw so they wouldn't have to guess.
Ah, here we go:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/930640/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2233566/posts
It would be a lot easier and cheap to just have the perps capped. That would probably ensure it would never recur.
Lots of other famous sculpture comes to mind for that, too. Athena Nike of Samothrace, for example.
Germany is rapidly turning into the Middle East.
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