{"id":809,"date":"2013-11-14T07:39:24","date_gmt":"2013-11-14T12:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/imagingservices\/?p=809"},"modified":"2014-03-18T12:55:57","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T16:55:57","slug":"the-smithsonian-is-now-sharing-3d-scans-of-artifacts-with-the-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/imagingservices\/2013\/11\/14\/the-smithsonian-is-now-sharing-3d-scans-of-artifacts-with-the-public\/","title":{"rendered":"The Smithsonian is now sharing 3D scans of artifacts with the public"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2013\/11\/13\/5100190\/the-smithsonian-is-now-sharing-3d-scans-of-artifacts-with-the-public\">The Smithsonian is taking the next step in sharing its massive collection with the public.<\/a> Today marks the release of the Smithsonian X 3D Explorer, a tool that will eventually allow students, educators, and laypeople to interact with 3D models of the museum&#8217;s 137 million artifacts. The tool will also let users 3D print scale models of artifacts (including fossils and the Wright Brothers&#8217; aircraft) that could otherwise never be touched.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SOo9WVuUmtc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Smithsonian is taking the next step in sharing its massive collection with the public. Today marks the release of the Smithsonian X 3D Explorer, a tool that will eventually allow students, educators, and laypeople to interact with 3D models &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/imagingservices\/2013\/11\/14\/the-smithsonian-is-now-sharing-3d-scans-of-artifacts-with-the-public\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5358,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14440,283],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-photography"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/imagingservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/imagingservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/imagingservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/imagingservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5358"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/imagingservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=809"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/imagingservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":876,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/imagingservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809\/revisions\/876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/imagingservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/imagingservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/imagingservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}