Waistcoat of traditional dress

Description

A waistcoat of dark cloth, decorated along the front edges with rows of **golden-yellow buttons** and ornamental bands. It was scanned **on a dress form**, so the model keeps the shape the waistcoat has when worn.

Textiles are scanned as a surface, not as a solid body. For 3D printing it was therefore closed first, and a plaque with the relief of the folds and a miniature on a stand were prepared.

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 **2.6 million triangles**, with an average triangle edge of about **0.73 mm**: the finest measure of shape the model retains. The surface colour was captured in an 8,192 × 8,192 pixel texture, about 5.2 pixels per millimetre of surface. The mesh is not closed, as part of the surface was not recorded, so the surface area, 5,917.9 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.