Ceramics 3D

You can see inside the rim, underneath the foot, around the curve — ceramic forms that only make sense in 3D, now spinnable in a browser with a click.

View 3D Album on Polycam

Once scanned, ceramic pieces can be embedded directly into websites like these below, and people can click to rotate and see them from all angles. Click/scroll around this one, below:

Ceramicists work in three dimensions - but they display their work online in two. Whether selling their pieces or applying to residencies, the world of ceramics documentation is primarily flat. But these forms cannot often be expressed in 2D: the forms make sense only when you can see inside, around, and underneath them.

Place ceramic on turntable in room with consistent, soft lighting

Take 100-200 photos while raising and lowering the phone, slowly spinning turntable

Process on Polycam, an iPhone app