{"id":790,"date":"2018-06-25T11:45:35","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T10:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/fedstaff\/?p=790"},"modified":"2018-06-25T11:27:26","modified_gmt":"2018-06-25T10:27:26","slug":"capturing-the-minerva-owls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/fedstaff\/2018\/06\/25\/capturing-the-minerva-owls\/","title":{"rendered":"Capturing the Minerva Owls"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Author: Vimal Dhokia -<\/h3>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/minervasowls.org\/\">Minerva Owl<\/a> public art sculpture trail aims to celebrate Bath's Roman heritage and raise money for local charities. We worked with the Minerva Owl\u2019s team\u00a0to create a digitised computer model of a sculpted clay owl. We used a high precision structured light scanner to capture a complete model of the owl and used this to create the digital model. The digital model was subsequently used to machine a resin model of the owl from which the fibreglass moulds were manufactured.<\/p>\n<p>It was really great to work on a local project with such an enthusiastic\u00a0team, and I hope it will get more people interested in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bath.ac.uk\/mech-eng\/research\/advanced-design-and-manufacturing\/\">design and manufacture teaching and research<\/a> we undertake at the University.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The University of Bath helps Minerva\u2019s Owls of Bath take flight\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/x8SkKZsn2U0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/minervasowls.org\/the-sculpture\/\">Learn more about how the Minerva Owls were designed and manufactured<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author: Vimal Dhokia - The Minerva Owl public art sculpture trail aims to celebrate Bath's Roman heritage and raise money for local charities. We worked with the Minerva Owl\u2019s team\u00a0to create a digitised computer model of a sculpted clay owl....<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":967,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[183,182,181],"class_list":["post-790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty-of-engineering-design-staff-insight","tag-advanced-design-and-manufacture-group","tag-mechanical-engineering","tag-minerva-owls"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/fedstaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/fedstaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/fedstaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/fedstaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/967"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/fedstaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/fedstaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/fedstaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/fedstaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/fedstaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}