a life mask of present that was made by paul hamann in 1930 bus yes no it s not a 5 inch tongue and the border from post hama at. the end in between in. here we have also tried to convey how international pressure was. there are translations of his works in different languages from japanese to your cranium. mandir you can see that pressure continues to have a certain impact today so i think if this is an i.c. train named alice randall hot famous stars such as david bowie and many of us sang back. well we will miss quote your organs played in the threepenny opera. there s a coaster stamps in various countries too. there s also mice
history, history needs to be felt and touched. yes, really to engage in the history of america and natural world, you need to be able to touch it. and that s why he abandoned the wood working for three d laser presenting. a advanced method of recreating historical objects. three d is so precise, it is traps forming the way we as human beings relate to our pass. this is a throw d printing of president obama based on a life mask when he was president. they put blaster on top of his face and cast it out of plaster. and our team had a scanned it. reporter: they have the
flight suit and touch david livington rifle and enable dinosaur fossils. they are able to hold it in their hands. that is something that is a game changer. and the smithsonian is allowing the laser information to be down loaded from their website. that means anyone did have the historical objects in their home? that s right. we are talking down the smithsonian and down load the data and print it. reporter: it will open up history to everyone. that is it from here. back to you. does that ensphire you to do a plaster? reporter: it is colto have lincoln s life mask in his hands and that is amazing. and the forethought to do that. you get a sense of what he looked like. they did a life mask before and after the war and you can so
this just with a regular mouse. yep, i pull up the two life masks that were taken of lincoln in office and while he was still alive, so on the left here, the one spinning, this was taken in the remaining months of the civil war. this is a life mask that was taken just before the civil war. and what you can really see is how much he had aged in those years. they started this program three years ago, and so far, have put 21 objects online. the original wright brothers flier. an intricately carved limestone buddha. it s impossible to make it out in person, but online this is what it looks like in real life. i can remove the color information and then pull out the areas of high curvature, and now you can see everything that s happening. so much greater detail than if you were a foot away from it. and remember the lincoln mask? you can download the computer image and get an exact copy on a 3-d printer in your home or
can complement that with being able to look at something online or 3-d print it and hold it in your hands. adam and vincent are digitization officers at the smithsonian, but their colleagues call them laser cowboys. they capture some of the collection s 137 million objects and put them online in 3-d. allowing you to experience them in ways you can t even in person. take, for example, this mask of abraham lincoln. i m at the optimal distance to create a 3-d scan. they paint a laser beam across the mask. this is all handheld. and here it is showing up. that is unbelievable. so you can see the object like this, like the life mask, would take 15 to 20 minutes to 3-d scan. now if you go to the smithsonian website, you can manipulate the object and see things you can t see in the museum. you re able to manipulate