The Art of Manual Stone Carving as a Leap to Its Virtual Future

Year: 2011 Authors: Jacques Beck

Core claim

Manual stone carving can be analyzed as a geometrical, mechanical, and potentially modelable process that may lead to replayable virtual sculptures and computer-supported craft.

Topics

stone carving mechanics, tool-hand-stone relations, virtual sculpture modeling, craft to computation

Domains

geometry, applied mathematics, finite element method, sculpture, stone craft, digital art, multisculpture

Methods

phenomenological analysis, mechanical description, literature review, finite element modeling

Media

stone, point chisel, mallet, percussive drilling tools

Source status

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