Info-Sculpture

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Info-Sculpture
An effort towards heritage preservation
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Introduction

• History of any nation needs to be preserved.
  Indian artifacts and sculptures are very rich in
  their values varieties.
• Indian temples have engraved sculptures which
  depicts many social messages.
• Monuments and artifacts are in constant danger of
  destruction due to Natural calamities, war
  terrorism.
• There is need for Archiving Reconstruction of
  damaged sculptures.
• Info-Sculpture is an effort of IIT-Kanpur with
  Media Lab towards this direction.

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Objective

• The objective behind this work is to
• Record and archive morphological features of
  heritage artifacts from past culture,
• Process those features using modern software
  tool and to create a knowledge based
  information system,
• Exploring the potential of 3D vision for
  application in heritage or as an input to virtual
  reality environment and
• Geometric modeling for reconstruction and
  regeneration of artifacts.

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Methodology

• Methodology includes
• Point clouds capturing using digital optical
  scanner,
• Point cloud processing,
• Digital modeling
• Prototyping
• These things are done with high-end
  application software, deploying reverse
  engineering ,rapid prototyping etc,

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Instrument Used
ATOS Optical Digital Scanner
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Steps Involved
Artifact
Digitized model (using optical scanner)
Solid Model
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Artifact
Digitized model
Solid Model
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Project Progress
In first phase of the project , we
have digitized some valuable artifacts in
National Museum ,Mathura.
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Some Sculptures From Mathura Museum
Yaksa (2nd Century B.C)
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Yaksa

This is a statue of colossal size
representing a corpulent male figure of Yaksa .
He is holding a mudgar in his right
hand. Period 2nd Century B.C Height 195 cms
Provenance Bharanakalyana, Mathura Material
Buff Stone


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Kaniska(1st Century A.D)
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Kaniska
This headless life-sized statue of great
Kaniska is the only one statue available in the
world . Period 1st Century A.D Height 162 cms
Provenance Etokri Mound, Mathura Material
Buff Stone
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Buddha(1st Century A.D)
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Buddha
Buddha is seated in padmasana on a lion throne
under under the bodhi tree. On either side of
the main buddha figure are shown two Caurl
bearing male attendants. Period 1st Century
A.D Height 69 cms Provenance Katra Kesavadev,
Mathura Material Red Sandstone
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Some More
Lady Squeezing Hair (2nd Century A.D)
Visnu (10th Century A.D)
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Contd (Some Terracotta)
Mother Goddess (2nd
Century B.C)
Mother Goddess (1st Century B.C)
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Mother Goddess (1st Century A.D)
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Effect on Society

• The database of artifacts in digital form can be
  used in future modification work and replication.
• The technology under study will allow artists,
  sculptors, archaeologists, and researchers to
  view, analyze, and even reproduce artifacts
  digitally.
• The models thus created can form archives, which
  could be manipulated at any time to view, edit or
  fabricate.
• This work will be a permanent record for our
  heritage and future generations interested in
  research and study of history and archeology will
  be benefited immensely from this work.

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• Thanks !