Trousers of traditional dress

Description

The lower garment of traditional dress: trousers of light cloth with **dark ornamental bands** along the legs and a tied sash at the waist. They were scanned upright, in the shape they have when worn.

The colour model keeps the contrast between the light cloth and the dark ornament, which is lost in single-colour 3D printing — for this object **the screen is a better medium than a replica**.

The date, origin and inventory details of the object have not been established.

## 3D scan

The object was recorded by contact-free 3D scanning. The source model has **5.7 million triangles**, with an average triangle edge of about **0.70 mm**: the finest measure of shape the model retains. The surface colour was captured in an 8,192 × 8,192 pixel texture, about 5.3 pixels per millimetre of surface. The mesh is not closed, as part of the surface was not recorded, so the surface area, 12,063.3 cm², was measured but the volume was not. For the web the model was reduced to 150,000 triangles and a 2,048-pixel texture; the source scan is kept for documentation, technical drawings and printing replicas.