2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Throughout the past few months, we have been scanning Impressionism Paintings. Our goal is to save these wonderful works of art; through the use of 3D scanning, modeling, and eventually manufacturing them through 3d printing them in color. We are attempting to capture the brush strokes as we want as much detail of the painting as possible. We have 3D-Scanned multiple paintings in the past six months. In these six months, we have used multiple different 3D scanners and programs. The first one we used was an iPad that was just the Lidar from an off-the-shelf iPad product. For these initial scans, we also used a simple oil-based painting that lacked the extreme depth provided by impressionism-style art. The scans from this did not come out the best and we wanted something better. The next scanner we used was another iPad but with a 3D scanner attached this one gave better results, but not exactly what we were looking for. To continue this project we used an industry quality scanner for our following attempt. The last scanner we used was called the EinScan. This scanner was the one we were looking for as it gave details needed at high quality. We were able to see the brush strokes of the Impressionism Painting. The detail produced using this scanner was perfect as it made almost a replica of the original painting. We will then be using rapid prototyping techniques to reproduce a painting that could be presented to people who cannot see the original works. Additionally, we can utilize this project to preserve artifacts that will slowly deteriorate due to Ultraviolet damage or other causes that would take such art from us. Instead, we will forever have a replica digitally that can be reproduced at any time needed.