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MU | A r c h i v e s
3D printing brings Archives
collection to life
T
hree-dimensional (3D) printing and virtual reality may soon
change how Manchester students learn.
In the near future, students tethered to a computer
and headset will be able to manipulate 3D objects, interact with
biomolecules, explore anatomical structures, walk international city
streets, or travel through the Milky Way.
campus and scanned a variety of African and Asian objects from
Manchester’s Ethnographic Art Collection.
Derek Miller, 3D project coordinator at IUPUI, brought IUPUI
students to Funderburg Library for the scanning process. Helping
them were MU students Zoe Vorndran ’19, Eli Smith, and Monique
Hochstetler. In turn, MU’s group traveled to Indianapolis to learn
what was involved in assembling 3D images.
3D images also are forming Manchester’s first virtual museum,
preserving treasures for future generations to access online and study.
It started with a collaboration between the Manchester University
Archives and the IUPUI University Library Center for Digital
Scholarship. A team from IUPUI came to the North Manchester
A 3D print of a crocodile mask in Manchester’s Ethnographic Art Collection gets the
attention of (from left) Associate Professor Jena Oke ’97, Librarian Jill Lichstinn ’79
(now retired), Professor Raylene Rospond, Edita Sicken, instruction and access services
librarian, Derek Miller of IUPUI, and Thelma Rohrer ’84, dean of the College of Arts and
Humanities.
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