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Cosmo Wenman
Personal blog · cosmowenman.com · on HN as CosmoWenmanculturesciencehistory
Cosmo Wenman writes COSMO WENMAN, a personal blog at cosmowenman.com about culture, science and history. Since 2013, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Cosmo Wenman's blog about 3D scanning of museum artifacts, including his fight to reproduce Musée Rodin sculptures and the Nefertiti scan controversy. Threads also discuss the French court scans.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
For more than a decade, museums around the world have been making high-quality 3D scans of important sculptures and ancient artifacts. Many institutions freely share their 3D scans with the public, allowing us to view, copy, adapt, and experiment with the underlying works in ways that have never bef
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What Hacker News says?
The Musée Rodin is not an "independent institution" at all, it's an "Établissement public national à caractère administratif"[0]: a government entity. The letters[1] are signed by "Catherine Chevillet, Conservateur général du Patrimoine" -- that's a civil servant. And the RMN, alluded to in the post, is also a government entity. [0] https://www.pappers.fr/entreprise/musee-national-auguste-rod... [1] https://cosmowen…
Comment linking /wp-content/uploads/2024/04/20190426-musee-rodin-warns-requests-guidance-from-ministry-of-culture_fr_en.pdf
on “Secret 3D scans in the French Supreme Court”Submitted 3D Printed Portaiture: Past, Present, and Future as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIt may be possible, but unlikely. In one of our briefs in the Conseil d'Etat we asserted (and, I think, well supported) that the museum's refusal to communicate its scans to me constituted an infringement of my freedom of expression as defined in Article 10 of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. In some circumstances, this opens up the possibility of appealing the CE'…
Comment linking /wp-content/uploads/2026/10/040_20250409-wenman-reply-brief-conseil-detat_fr_en.pdf
on “Treachery in the Rodin Museum 3D scan verdict”I found an older article on the subject https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2021/03/05/musee-rodin-could... and the man himself has a site: https://cosmowenman.com/
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on “An American's fierce fight to reproduce sculptures of the Rodin Museum for free”Apparently, the author of this article believes that story was a hoax, source [0]. Reading his arguments, I am also inclined to believe the same. [0] https://cosmowenman.com/2016/03/08/the-nefertiti-3d-scan-hei...
Comment linking /2016/03/08/the-nefertiti-3d-scan-heist-is-a-hoax/
on “A Museum Tried to Hide This 3D Scan of an Iconic Egyptian Artifact. (2019)”I had a chance to go through the author's website [0], and it's quite the pleasure! I've always been bit of a historical art nerd, so to know that I can have my own little 3d scans of such amazing pieces of history gives me immense joy. On other news, now that 3D scanning is becoming pretty commonplace with the iPhone pro LiDAR and apps like [1] or [2], I wonder how long such protests by museums will last before the…
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on “A Museum Tried to Hide This 3D Scan of an Iconic Egyptian Artifact. (2019)”
