A high-end S.T. Dupont lighter can cost upwards of $1,000—that’s a pretty steep price to pay for something you can otherwise just pick up at the corner gas station. Sure, Dupont’s lighters are beautiful and often made from lavish materials like palladium and gold, but it does make you wonder: What’s inside that metal shell that makes them so incredibly pricey? The allure of luxury items has always been rooted in mystery and fantasy, which is shame because arguably the coolest part of these products— the innovation, craftsmanship and technology employed to make them ends up hidden under a glossy, cosmetic exterior. “The principle of luxury objects is that that all the traces of work must be invisible,”
The hope of LuxInside, a collective of artists and scientists who are using 3d scanning technology to peer inside some of the most opulent items on the planet.
The images you’re looking at are actually the product of years of testing and tweaking 3d imaging software. Because traditional medical scanners are made to work with organic matter like skin, the metal and plastic found in the objects LuxInside wanted to explore left images full of white noise and blurred resolution. The team realized if they wanted to peer inside a Dyson vacuum cleaner or a Les Paul Gibson guitar, they were going to have to update the software. Ordureau, who owns a company that creates 3d imaging software, altered the filters to decrease the fuzz created by inorganic matter. This allowed the team to cut through the outside of items like a Hermes saddle, Louboutin shoe and Leica camera. Using the still-life photographs Picot shot of the original objects, Escobar blended the 2d and 3d images together to form a distinctive outline while still enhancing the product’s guts.
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