ThinkSee3D Ltd

06/10/2025

A ThinkSee3D replica exhibit on display at the Sushou Museum in China, part of the British Museum's touring exhibition. Seen by 2.5 million visitors, it shows Assyrian king Ashurbanipal killing a lion, but the king also has a pen in his belt, showing that he valued learning and not just butchery. It is because of this king that we have the Sumerian epic story Gilgamesh, which was found in the ruins of his palace by treasure hunters in the 19th century. The exhibit was produced by 3D scans by and digitally carved using a large Chinese CNC machine by . Photo courtesy of Oly Nicolaysen.

27/09/2025

A real and very large shabti being 3D scanned last week at the wonderful .

16/09/2025

I was invited to the opening of a temporary exhibition at Oxford University Museum of Natural History (created by curator .swaby) of fossils found during the building of the HS2 line. Present were members of , Giles Hemmings (HS2 Geologist) and Simon Butler (Senior Project Engineer at HS2), and palaeontologists Murray Edmunds and Jon Radley (Warwick Museum). Last year I was fortunate to be part of the team with , Sally and Nev Hollingworth and that excavated the second Jurassic Ichthyosaur found on the line I uncovered vertebrae, ribs and a shark spine. I also produced various 3D works for the project including scanning Ichthyosaur vertebra, a tiny crustacean claw (imaged, scaled up and 3D printed for the exhibition), the site itself and other finds.

06/09/2025

19/07/2025

Our latest replica, the unwrapped Galloway Hoard Vessel, as it might have looked 1,200 years ago. A combined CT & photogrammetry model, 3D printed, then electro encapsulated in silver, with hand painted gold & niello decorations. The decorations show fire temples, leopards, and tigers. The original was likely Sogdian (near modern day Iran) and would have travelled 1000's of miles along the silk road. It ended up buried and full of treasure in a remote churchyard in Galloway, Scotland. Made for but soon on its way to Melbourne, Australia.