Lincoln life mask from Smithsonian

[Speedster]

Hi all;

Despot shared the renderings he's done from the scans available from the Smithsonian Institution X3d beta website.  These are all worth a KeyShot or two! See his amazing post at https://www.keyshot.com/forum/index.php?topic=19301.0

So I downloaded a few to play with, shared here, in KeyShot 7.  The President Abraham Lincoln life mask, and the Wright Brothers "flyer", the first airplane in 1909.

Some files are in multiple formats including .obj.  Some are mapped and some not.  Some are split and others are just one humongous scan, like the "Livingston Rifle".  So far no luck splitting it apart in the Geometry Editor.

But it's a neat resource for the more ambitious among us! 

Smithsonian X3D home page:  https://3d.si.edu/

Download page, hard to find on the beta site:  https://3d.si.edu/download-browser

Lincoln done with curvature and a custom from scratch HDR using the awesome new HDR Editor.  Three IES lights.

Wright Flyer a WIP, using Translucent for the airfoil fabric.  No "pilot" so I have to be careful of the angle.

Download some and have a ball!

Bill G

[Arian Shamil]

Nice, both of them!

[Will Gibbons]

Love the aircraft. We don't see many of those here. Nice to make use of a sky-only backplate.

[Josh3D]

Beautiful shots Bill! Yeah, the flyer with sky backplate is excellent!