English subtitles for clip: File:The President, in 3D.webm

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Paul Debevec: We're
here at the White House,

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working with the
Smithsonian Institution

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on creating a 3D
presidential portrait.

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And the system that we've
brought to be part of this

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process is called our
mobile light stage.

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It's right over there
and we're setting

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it up right now so that
it can be used to record

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almost certainly the highest
resolution digital model

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that's ever been made
of a Head of State.

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Gunter Waibel: The
inspiration for the project

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of creating the portrait of
President Obama really comes

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from the Lincoln life mask
in our National Portrait

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Gallery and I have a Lincoln
life mask with me today.

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And they're called life masks
because these were directly

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taken from his likeness so there
was plaster put on his face.

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There were two little holes
poked where the nostrils were

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so he could still breathe and
seeing that made us think,

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what would happen if we could
actually do that with a sitting

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president using modern day
technologies and tools

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to create a similarly
authentic experience that

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connects us to history to
connect us to a moment

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in time, and connects us
to a person's likeness.

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Paul Debevec: So the process
should go relatively quickly.

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We will invite the
President to sit down.

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He will be surrounded by 50
custom built LED lights,

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eight high resolution
sports photography cameras,

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and an additional six
wider angle cameras;

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in about one second as he
holds his presidential pose.

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He'll be illuminated by
ten different lighting

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conditions which will
change the polarization

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of the light, the
directionality of the light,

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and will give us everything
that we need to understand

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the shape of his face and
how it transforms into

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illumination into the
images that we see of him.

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Ten years ago it was
barely possible to think

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this could be done.

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Vince Rossi: So here we
have a structured light

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3D camera that we use to
scan the President.

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For handheld they're flashing
a fringe pattern of light

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and there are stereo
cameras recording how that

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fringe pattern forms over
geometry or in this case

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the President's face.

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Tom Kalil: The President
getting his likeness scanned,

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as cool as that is, it is also
about a broader trend that's

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going on; and that is the
third Industrial Revolution.

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It's the combination of the
digital world and the physical

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world that is allowing
students and entrepreneurs

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to be able to go from
idea to prototype

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in the blink of an eye.

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It's been a few days
since we've 3D scanned

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the President.

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And we're looking at some
raw data on the screen

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right here so this is the
data that came out

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of the handheld scanners
that Adam Metallo

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and I were using
to scanned the President.

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Adam Metallo: Well this is
the first bust that's created

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of a Head of State from
objective 3D scanned data

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so this is an artistic
likeness of the President.

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This is actually millions upon
millions of measurements that

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create a 3D likeness of the
President that we can now print

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and make something that's
never been done before.