3D Colour Laser Scanning Workshop and Conference

UCL最近委托了一个最先进的Arius 3D激光成像系统，该系统能够从点间距为100微米的复杂物体中捕获高度精确的3D几何形状和颜色信息。这种下一代扫描仪是欧洲独一无二的设施，代表了与现有技术相比的技术进步。该系统利用了加拿大国家研究理事会授权的研究和开发，该理事会最近的工作包括为卢浮宫扫描莫纳丽莎。加拿大的Arius 3D也使用了类似的扫描仪，与皇家安大略博物馆和加拿大自然博物馆进行了一系列的合作。彩色扫描技术和快速生成计算机图形模型和在线内容所需的软件现在都在UCL使用，以数字化各种各样的物体，包括皮特里和格兰特博物馆的物体，在UCL博物馆和收藏馆的管理下举行。在伦敦大学学院战略性采购Arius扫描仪之后，现在是组织一个以博物馆学为导向的3D彩色扫描研讨会、实践评估和随后的会议的时候了，以探讨在博物馆工作中使用3D建模技术的应用、实用性和局限性，特别是在诊断和预防性博物馆保护、展示和展览以及教育领域，在博物馆中使用可视化技术取得了好坏参半的成功。博物馆间接使用物体扫描技术进行基于物体的研究，例如绘制自然历史标本中的诊断特征，准备地质材料或使用扫描电子显微镜检查微晶和亚细胞水平特征的亚微观表面细节。在纯粹的博物馆学背景下，相对较少的工作是记录博物馆物品的颜色和几何形状。现在有可用的扫描仪，能够在相对较短的时间内产生全色三维模型。这意味着第一次可以相对快速和经济地扫描大量对象。然而，尽管该技术已经取得了迅速的进展，仍然需要进行探索性的工作，以发现如何在博物馆工作中实际有效地使用3D模型，以及该技术如何有利于博物馆对象的研究，保护和游客体验。为了最大限度地提高效率，应选择和扫描物体，以实现补充使用实际物体或提供不通过物体扫描无法获得的信息的目的。3D扫描项目旨在探索3D彩色激光物体扫描在博物馆工作的三个关键领域的潜在用途：1）展示和展览，2）教育和解释，以及3）保护。

UCL has recently commissioned a state of the art Arius 3D laser based imaging system that is capable of capturing highly accurate 3D geometry and colour information from complex objects with a point spacing of 100 microns. This next generation scanner is a facility unique in Europe and represents a technological step change with respect to established techniques. The system draws upon research and development licensed from the National Research Council of Canada who's recent work includes scanning the Mona Lisa for the Louvre. A similar scanner has been used by Arius 3D in Canada, to undertake a range of collaborative work with the Royal Ontario Museum and the Canadian Museum of Nature.Both the colour scanning technology and the software necessary to rapidly generate computer graphics models and online content are now in use at UCL to digitise a wide range of objects, including those from the Petrie and Grant museums, held under the curatorship of UCL Muesums and Collections. Following the strategic procurement of the Arius scanner at UCL it is timely to organise a museologically orientated 3D colour scanning workshop, practical evaluation and subsequent conference to look at the applications, practicalities and limitations of using 3D modelling techniques in museum work, especially in the fields of diagnostic and preventative museum conservation, display and exhibition and education, interpretation and access.The use of visualisation technologies in museums has been met with mixed success. Object scanning has been used by museums indirectly for use in object based research for example the mapping of diagnostic features in natural history specimens, the preparation of geological material or the use of scanning electron micrographs for the examination of sub microscopic surface details of features at the microcrystalline and sub cellular level. Relatively little work has been done to record the colour and geometry of museum objects in a purely museological context. There are now scanners available that are capable of producing full-colour three dimensional models in a relatively short amount of time. This means that for the first time a significant number of objects can be scanned relatively quickly and affordably. Nevertheless, although the technology has progressed rapidly there still needs to be exploratory work undertaken to discover how to use 3D models practically and efficiently in museum work and how this technology may benefit museum object research, conservation and the visitor experience. In order to maximise efficiency objects should be selected and scanned to fulfil a purpose that either complements using the actual object or provides information that could not be obtained without object scanning.The 3D scanning project aims to explore the potential uses of 3D colour laser object scanning in three key distinct areas of museum work; 1) display and exhibition, 2) education and interpretation and 3) conservation.