Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research IGDThe Department for Cultural Heritage Digitization at Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research IGD, and the world’s leading high-end camera manufacturer, Phase One, have signed a memorandum of understanding. Together, the two partners will cooperate to bring to market the world’s first autonomous, color-faithful 3D digitization system, CultArm3D, based on CultLab3D™ technology.
Commencing in January 2021, the partners will enter a seed unit phase leading to a final product by 2022, when CultArm3D will be offered to initial customers on attractive early adopter terms.
CultArm3D combines best practices with ease-of-use for the many museums planning to embark on high-resolution 3D digitization of their collections. The 3D scanning results can be harnessed for scientific research, restoration, and preservation, for virtual and augmented reality applications, for 3D printing of works of art, or to engage with the general public.
CultArm3D delivers consistent high quality at high speed through autonomous adaptive scanning algorithms, creating detailed and color-faithful 3D representations of examples of cultural heritage, including objects with challenging surfaces, such as gold, brass, bronze and semi-translucent materials, e.g., ivory.