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a 3D Model of George Washington Project Team: For more than two years, the project to approach the reconstruction of George Washington at various times in his life from a forensic perspective has been discussed between Mt Vernon, Jeff Schwartz (U Pittsburgh) and Razdan, Tocheri, Collins et al at PRISM(ASU). The project award was made today by Mt Vernon to the joint team. The expected date of finish is July 2005, part of the celebration of 250th anniversary of the war that Washington served as a young officer.
With the realization that this reconstruction
would have to take place from secondary and
tertiary sources of images – from three-dimensional
objects, such as a life mask, a statue, and
personal belongings, as well as from two-dimensional
portraits – a project was conceived using
digitally based protocol that would require
not only scanning objects and manipulating them
together, but as a way of testing hypotheses
of Washington’s appearance during the
process of reconstructing him first at his age
at the time of the life mask, and then when
he was an officer in the British army. Three-dimensional
objects to be scanned, and their locations,
include a plaster life mask (New York City),
a marble statue (Richmond, VA), and various
personal items, such as spectacles, dentures,
perhaps a hat and shoe, and other clothing (Mount
Vernon-Washington DC-Baltimore area), as well
as a bust that Lafayette is said to have identified
as being a true likeness of Washington (Boston). |
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