The engraving is not based on 3D features, but rather they chose to engrave this purely artistic representation of the surface appearance of his curls into the relief as depth. And between his chin and ear, again, drops back down to the midline of his skull.Īnd hair will not have depth on a scan. The inside of the eye is actually past what should be a vertical midline- if expanded back to regular size and given the other half, his left eye would be colliding with his unseen right one. Reliefs use illusions that give false perceptions. If you took a 3D scan and flatted the Z to 1.8%, then it wouldn’t represent eyes or nose. Washington is about 11mm wide but only 0.2mm deep. A 3D relief is more than a scan! A 3D scan, even if “perfect” is not a 3D relief which typically means it lacks depth.
