Painting technique?

[glen]

Someone told me a company has figured out a way to copy oil paintings by scanning them then using something like an inkjet printer to build the paint on in layers in the copy so it looks exactly like the original, including the thickness of the paint and brush strokes.
Has anyone heard of this?
Is there a web site on the technique?

 

[glen]

anyone?

 

[StinkyMeat]

That sounds impossible. And pointless.

 

[43st]

Originally posted by: StinkyMeat
That sounds impossible. And pointless.

Agree... Impossible.

 

[stebesplace]

hmm. . .

Lets suppose for a minuite, you were able to have a scanner as precise as one that could measure depth, curvature, distance, height, etc etc etc to a .0001 degree. Now lets suppose that you could replicate this onto a computer, much like an MRI or CAT scan would do. Now lets suppose that as they have done with wax models, you could have a machine create this image that is on the computer.

So, in theory this is possible, I do not belive the technology is there YET, but it will be. Its not all that hard to duplicate. Its just depth, and skingraph.

-Steve

 

[T2T III]

Originally posted by: StinkyMeat
That sounds impossible. And pointless.

Why is it pointless? I'm sure there are lots of people who can't afford to drop $25 million for an original, but could drop $500 for a "clone."

 

[MichaelD]

Originally posted by: wje

Originally posted by: StinkyMeat
That sounds impossible. And pointless.

Why is it pointless? I'm sure there are lots of people who can't afford to drop $25 million for an original, but could drop $500 for a "clone."

And people that own originals getting good copies made, and stolen for insurance purposes too. :Q

 

[glen]

You simply can't take every school kid to Musée d'Orsay, Paris, to see Cézanne, Monet, Manet, Degas, Renoir, and Van Gogh.
These are really beautiful paintings, but unless you have seen them in person, you can't begin to understand their beauty from a reproduction in an art book. A nice technique to add the 3 dimensions in would change all that.

 

[bleeb]

Sounds retarded. I bet there are other more constructive things to do.

 

[white]

they had one of those in an old 'mission impossible' episode. but even if someone had one, they'd have to be able to get the authentic one off the wall first and into this hypothetical scanner without museum security getting in the way. and if it were handheld, you'd have to hold your hand absolutely steady as it took the scan.