A Museum Tried to Hide This 3D Scan of an Iconic Egyptian Artifact. (2019)

> You'd think SPK could spend half an hour throwing a webpage together and uploading the data for everyone to access. But they haven't, so I've done it for them.

It would have become a 10 million euro project over three years run by IBM.

Yes it's going to be more expensive that a one man shop. Thinking that most organizations are one man hour away from publishing a 3D model on their home page is crazy talk.

Science research groups often have interesting pictures/videos/graphics which aren't available online. Usually that's seemed a combination of "why bother?", lack of time, and unfamiliarity with open content and copyright ("Sure, I'll email it to you. The license... what do you mean?"). But sometimes, it's windfall dreams. "That wasn't easy to make. And someday, some publisher will need it."

So I imagine they might have been telling themselves for years, we have this wonderful asset, costly to make, and "someday...". And then a FOIA request for it shows up.

One of the first prints done on my 3D printer. Looks lovely on my desk. Took some time to slice, as the Kodeins rather large.