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Probably portable 3D scanners makes it easier, but facsimile art isn't new at all. The V&A museum in London has a huge set of Victorian-era plaster casts of EVE
by roywiggins 11y ago
Probably portable 3D scanners makes it easier, but facsimile art isn't new at all. The V&A museum in London has a huge set of Victorian-era plaster casts of EVERYTHING:
http://www.vam.ac.uk/page/c/cast-courts/ http://www.vam.ac.uk/page/c/cast-courts/
There's a whole industry of manuscript fascimiles:
http://www.facsimilefinder.com/ http://www.facsimilefinder.com/
- Turing_Machine 11y agoYes, people have been making facsimiles for a long time. The Spurlock Museum in Urbana, IL has a set of copies of the Elgin Marbles, for instance.
- justincormack 11y agoYes, was about to say the same, the Convention for Promoting Universal Reproductions of Works of Art was in 1867. 3D printing of sculptures is hardly new...