Mar 30, 2016 | By Kira
3D printing marketplace Threeding has launched yet another joint
venture with 3D scanning hardware and software company Artec 3D to promote education,
scientific knowledge, and the preservation of rare avian species. For this
latest project, the two companies are teaming up to 3D scan and digitize more
than 55 endangered and threatened birds, all of which will be made available to
students, ornithologists, veterinarians, and biologists in a 3D
printer-friendly format.
Browsing through your favorite 3D printing marketplace, you can find
just about any 3D printable modelyou’re after—home décor, furniture, video
game content, engineering tools, kitchen supplies…really, anything. But
Bulgarian 3D printing marketplace Threeding doesn’t
just want to make the everyday available, its goal is to capture the rare,
historical, and the irreplaceable, and to preserve it all via 3D scanning and
3D printing technology. For its part, Artec 3D provides
some of the most advanced 3D scanning solutions on the market, and is well aware of
the power of 3D scanning to help preserve and recreate life as we know it.
Artec 3D and Threeding’s collaboration goes back to 2014, when the two
companies set out to 3D scan historical artifacts from leading Central and Eastern European
museums. Earlier this year, the two collaborated again, this time 3D scanning and digitizing a large collection of Ancient Greek
artifacts.
With the 3D ornithology project (ornithology is the study of birds),
Threeding will use Artec’s high resolution Spider and EVA 3D scanners as well as Artec’s Studio software to produce
textured, high resolution scans of rare bird species, including the Eastern
Imperial Eagle, White-Tailed Eagle, Boreal Owl, Humboldt Penguin, Black-Crowned
Night Heron, Long-Eared Owel, and more.
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