Michelangelo's unfinished apostle "St. Matthew"

Size of raw scans:approx 600 million points
Reconstruction:VRIP at 1/4 mm
Size of reconstruction:186,810,938 vertices, 372,422,615 triangles
Color:none
Version:2 (September 1, 2000)
Status:Well-aligned geometry; contains some holes, especially on the back where the laser couldn't reach.
Available as:
  • 12 PLY files (stmatthew_qtrmm_{1,2,3,...,12}.ply.gz, total 3.7 GB)
  • 11 .matches files (stmatthew_qtrmm_{1_2,2_3,3_4,...,11_12}.matches, total 9 MB)
  • QS file decimated to 100 million points (stmatthew_qtrmm.qs.gz, 532 MB)
  • The polygon meshes contained in the PLY files of adjacent sections of the model (for example stmatthew_qtrmm_1.ply.gz and stmatthew_qtrmm_2.ply.gz) overlap by one row of vertices. Although the coordinates of these vertices should be identical, due to unresolved numerical problems they are not. To resolve potential ambiguities, we have created a set of files that explicitly enumerate which vertices in one file correspond to which vertices in the other file. There are 11 files named stmatthew_qtrmm_m_n.matches, where m and n are the numbers of the appropriate slices. The files are simple ASCII, listing pairs of indices of corresponding vertices in the two .ply files.

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