Past Thinking » documentary http://www.pastthinking.com/blog Archaeology, museums, and heritage: news, opinions and digital developments Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:57:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 2006-2007 tom@goskar.com (Past Thinking) tom@goskar.com (Past Thinking) posts Where Past Meets Future Past Thinking Past Thinking tom@goskar.com No no http://www.pastthinking.com/blog/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg Past Thinking http://www.pastthinking.com/blog 144 144 Bringing President Lincoln “back to life” http://www.pastthinking.com/blog/2009/02/04/bringing-president-lincoln-back-to-life/ http://www.pastthinking.com/blog/2009/02/04/bringing-president-lincoln-back-to-life/#comments Wed, 04 Feb 2009 09:52:38 +0000 Tom Goskar http://www.pastthinking.com/blog/?p=252 Combining laser scans of casts of Lincoln’s ‘life mask’, with photogrammetric techniques, specialists in the USA have created a highly accurate-looking computer generated model of President Lincoln for a documentary entitled “Stealing Lincoln’s Body”. Using photographs, they have created highly detailed texture maps to make his face look as natural as possible.

The documentary explores plots by a Chicago gang to steal his body in 1876. The clip below gives you a taste of how they have achieved this ambitious project.

Read more on History’s (“History ™” is the new name for The History Channel…) Lincoln website.

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