Editor’s Note: This article was produced in collaboration with the Arts & Culture MA concentration at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. As museums look at 3D scanning as a way to ...

3D scanning technology is being used to examine and replicate classic works of art. It's raising some ethical questions about what it means to preserve authenticity and democratize access in an age ...

In France during the mid-to-late 1800s, one could go into François Willème’s studio, sit for a photo session consisting of 24 cameras arranged in a circle around the subject, and in a matter of days ...

When an earthquake struck the UNESCO heritage site Bam, Iran in 2003, many of the world’s oldest adobe structures were reduced to rubble. One year later, a fire in Weimar, Germany destroyed 50,000 ...

3D scanning is important because the ability to digitize awkward or troublesome shapes from the real world can really hit the spot. One can reconstruct objects by drawing them up in CAD, but when ...

Excellent detail capture on a useful object, like this DeWalt drill model from a 3D scan, is more the exception than the rule. (Scan by Alex Harvey, courtesy of Polycam) Polycam is another app/service ...