Method for making and reproducing at least part of an object or a person
AssigneeUMH Universal Master's Head S.A.
InventorsBernard Hermet, Bernard Simon
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Abstract
A method of manufacturing a three dimensional reproduction of an article having recesses and relief sections by taking photographs of the article and digitalizing the information. The information is used to produce a volumetric body of the article and an anamorphosed image of the article containing color and texture data. The image is placed on a heat shrinkable material which is applied to the body in symbiotic relationship therewith so that the anamorphosed image becomes undistorted when shrink fitted to the body.
Claims5
A method of manufacturing a three dimensional reproduction of an article having recesses and relieve shapes the includes the steps:
- producing data files from photographs of the article from which volumetric body information and skin color and texture information can be devised,
- digitizing the information contained in the data files;
- producing a volumetric body from the digitized information;
- creating an anamorphoses image from the same information used to produce the volumetric body, said image being a function of the physical characteristics of the volumetric body;
- placing the anamorphosed image upon a sheet of shrinkable material;
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- symbiosing the imaged heat shrinkable material onto the volumetric body by shrinking the material onto the body so that the anamorphosed image becomes undistorted to produce a faithful isotropic reproduction of the article.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.