Patent ID: 6498961
Filing Date: 2002-12-24
Classification: B44C,G05B,G16Z

Abstract:
A method of manufacturing a three dimensional reproduction of an article having recesses and relieve shapes the includes the steps:producing data files from photographs of the article from which volumetric body information and skin color and texture information can be devised, digitizing the information contained in the data files; producing a volumetric body from the digitized information; creating an anamorphoses image from the same information used to produce the volumetric body, said image being a function of the physical characteristics of the volumetric body; placing the anamorphosed image upon a sheet of shrinkable material; and symbiosing the imaged heat shrinkable material onto the volumetric body by shrinking the material onto the body so that the anamorphosed image becomes undistorted to produce a faithful isotropic reproduction of the article.