English subtitles for clip: File:The President, in 3D.webm
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1 00:00:00,266 --> 00:00:01,334 Paul Debevec: We're here at the White House, 2 00:00:01,334 --> 00:00:03,370 working with the Smithsonian Institution 3 00:00:03,037 --> 00:00:05,639 on creating a 3D presidential portrait. 4 00:00:05,972 --> 00:00:08,441 And the system that we've brought to be part of this 5 00:00:08,441 --> 00:00:10,944 process is called our mobile light stage. 6 00:00:10,944 --> 00:00:13,079 It's right over there and we're setting 7 00:00:13,079 --> 00:00:15,882 it up right now so that it can be used to record 8 00:00:15,882 --> 00:00:17,979 almost certainly the highest resolution digital model 9 00:00:18,852 --> 00:00:21,087 that's ever been made of a Head of State. 10 00:00:23,069 --> 00:00:24,971 Gunter Waibel: The inspiration for the project 11 00:00:25,592 --> 00:00:28,395 of creating the portrait of President Obama really comes 12 00:00:28,395 --> 00:00:30,764 from the Lincoln life mask in our National Portrait 13 00:00:30,764 --> 00:00:35,068 Gallery and I have a Lincoln life mask with me today. 14 00:00:35,068 --> 00:00:37,404 And they're called life masks because these were directly 15 00:00:37,404 --> 00:00:41,007 taken from his likeness so there was plaster put on his face. 16 00:00:41,007 --> 00:00:44,034 There were two little holes poked where the nostrils were 17 00:00:44,277 --> 00:00:47,380 so he could still breathe and seeing that made us think, 18 00:00:47,038 --> 00:00:50,275 what would happen if we could actually do that with a sitting 19 00:00:50,617 --> 00:00:54,220 president using modern day technologies and tools 20 00:00:54,022 --> 00:00:58,493 to create a similarly authentic experience that 21 00:00:58,691 --> 00:01:00,748 connects us to history to connect us to a moment 22 00:01:01,261 --> 00:01:04,308 in time, and connects us to a person's likeness. 23 00:01:04,731 --> 00:01:07,867 Paul Debevec: So the process should go relatively quickly. 24 00:01:07,867 --> 00:01:09,969 We will invite the President to sit down. 25 00:01:09,969 --> 00:01:15,508 He will be surrounded by 50 custom built LED lights, 26 00:01:15,508 --> 00:01:18,044 eight high resolution sports photography cameras, 27 00:01:18,044 --> 00:01:20,180 and an additional six wider angle cameras; 28 00:01:20,018 --> 00:01:24,389 in about one second as he holds his presidential pose. 29 00:01:24,551 --> 00:01:26,586 He'll be illuminated by ten different lighting 30 00:01:26,586 --> 00:01:29,255 conditions which will change the polarization 31 00:01:29,255 --> 00:01:31,324 of the light, the directionality of the light, 32 00:01:31,324 --> 00:01:33,460 and will give us everything that we need to understand 33 00:01:33,046 --> 00:01:35,748 the shape of his face and how it transforms into 34 00:01:36,162 --> 00:01:39,189 illumination into the images that we see of him. 35 00:01:39,432 --> 00:01:42,135 Ten years ago it was barely possible to think 36 00:01:42,135 --> 00:01:43,837 this could be done. 37 00:01:43,837 --> 00:01:45,038 Vince Rossi: So here we have a structured light 38 00:01:45,038 --> 00:01:47,273 3D camera that we use to scan the President. 39 00:01:47,273 --> 00:01:50,176 For handheld they're flashing a fringe pattern of light 40 00:01:50,176 --> 00:01:52,879 and there are stereo cameras recording how that 41 00:01:52,879 --> 00:01:55,181 fringe pattern forms over geometry or in this case 42 00:01:55,181 --> 00:01:56,483 the President's face. 43 00:01:56,483 --> 00:01:59,560 Tom Kalil: The President getting his likeness scanned, 44 00:02:00,253 --> 00:02:04,424 as cool as that is, it is also about a broader trend that's 45 00:02:04,424 --> 00:02:07,861 going on; and that is the third Industrial Revolution. 46 00:02:07,861 --> 00:02:10,697 It's the combination of the digital world and the physical 47 00:02:10,697 --> 00:02:15,268 world that is allowing students and entrepreneurs 48 00:02:15,268 --> 00:02:17,737 to be able to go from idea to prototype 49 00:02:17,737 --> 00:02:20,340 in the blink of an eye. 50 00:02:20,034 --> 00:02:22,369 It's been a few days since we've 3D scanned 51 00:02:22,675 --> 00:02:23,543 the President. 52 00:02:23,543 --> 00:02:25,545 And we're looking at some raw data on the screen 53 00:02:25,545 --> 00:02:27,881 right here so this is the data that came out 54 00:02:27,881 --> 00:02:29,816 of the handheld scanners that Adam Metallo 55 00:02:29,816 --> 00:02:32,385 and I were using to scanned the President. 56 00:02:32,385 --> 00:02:35,054 Adam Metallo: Well this is the first bust that's created 57 00:02:35,054 --> 00:02:38,458 of a Head of State from objective 3D scanned data 58 00:02:38,458 --> 00:02:42,262 so this is an artistic likeness of the President. 59 00:02:42,262 --> 00:02:46,499 This is actually millions upon millions of measurements that 60 00:02:46,499 --> 00:02:50,937 create a 3D likeness of the President that we can now print 61 00:02:50,937 --> 00:02:52,505 and make something that's never been done before.