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Modeling the Happy Buddha Statue






The original statue of
"Happy Buddha"
One 3D-scan of the statue
using a vertical laser light plane
and a rotating stage.
Model reconstruction
from 48 aligned range images
by Marc Levoy and Brian Curless.
2.4 million polygons, Gouraud-shaded.
Virtual model by Huamin Wang with photonmapping and subsurface scattering. (1,000,000 photons; 543,652 points)

More renderings can be found here:
3D FAX: 
Stereolithography reproduction.

To learn more, go to:  http://graphics.stanford.edu/projects/faxing/happy/



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