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The recording and replication of artworks is well established and methods such as photography and casting are common place in many museums. Conservation practice demands that we should be able to achieve a high degree of accuracy without any damaging contact occurring to the original object. Previous attempts to record and replicate artworks have not always been very successful in fulfilling this requirement. The aim of this paper is to highlight some of the possibilities presented by the latest laser-based recording and manufacturing techniques which require no physical contact with the original artwork.
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Fowles, P.S. (2000). The Potential Uses of Lasers and Layer Manufacture in Conservation. In: Fotakis, C., Papazoglou, T.G., Kalpouzos, C. (eds) Optics and Lasers in Biomedicine and Culture. Series of the International Society on Optics Within Life Sciences, vol 5. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56965-4_38
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