3D model of cosmowenman
The models were repaired and checked for printability.
I used a compilation of photos of other people's prints of this model in a
...Plus presentation to LACMA on February 3, 2014.
"No classical education is needed to appreciate the personification, nor is it hard to grasp the drama of the figure's action given its superb position--and this is so despite the absence of arms and head; indeed perhaps its maimed condition has helped make the life it retains seem more miraculous."—Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny, Taste and the Antique: The Lure of Classical Sculpture, 1500-1900
An iconic beacon of martial glamour, Winged Victory, the Nike of Samothrace is widely considered Hellenistic sculpture's greatest masterpiece. It was made between 200 and 190 BC, and more than a century ago important works of sculptural art like it were reproduced in plaster to be bought, sold, and traded by museums, universities, art schools, and private collectors around the world. In 1891, high-fidelity, full-scale, nine-foot-tall plaster casts of Winged Victory could be purchased from the Louvre's own atelier for 300 francs.
The customs and commerce driving the plaster cast tradition largely died out in the early 1900s. Many significant cast collections were broken up, with some pieces lost or even deliberately destroyed.
In 1892, a plaster of Winged Victory was carefully cast by the Louvre's atelier under the direction of its master mold maker Eugene Arrondelle and was purchased by the University of Basel. The Basel cast of Victory survives today at the Skulpturhalle Basel museum.
In September 2013, with the museum's permission and the financial support of Autodesk's Reality Capture division, I spent a week working in the Skulpturhalle, taking 3D surveys of my choice of casts. I took hundreds of carefully staged photos of Victory and used Autodesk's ReCap Photo photogrammetry software to process them into this high-quality 3D model.
The complete, single-part model will need supports, and you may want to re-orient it depending on what size you are printing.
Most of the multi-part sections print well in PLA with no external supports. Only the "cloak tail" piece needs external supports. I've included variations of a couple pieces with manual supports added under some parts of the drapery -- with these manual supports, there is no need for automatic supports.
I've printed these pieces several times with RepG for file prep and a Replicator1, with zero infill, 3 walls thick, at .2mm layer height. At this scale and print quality the assembled figure is about 20 inches tall, and shows the features well. It is roughly the same scale, human-figure-wise, as my multi-part Venus de Milo model -- they make a nice pair side-by-side.
Other machine and software combos may require different settings.
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