Holly goes digital
The RCA has a great facility called Rapid Form where you can scan and 3D print almost anything… including arms. People can’t stand still long enough to create an accurate scan which is why I made plaster models (see Casting Holly’s Arms). Amusingly, they had to be sprayed grey and covered in reflective polka dots to allow the scanner to see them. Now that we have computer models of the shape of Holly’s arms we can easily manipulate them and print out objects to fit or even mirror the file if we wanted to transfer some of the detail from her right arm onto her left. Apparently the RP staff were intrigued to find out why there were so many arms in the booth. Holly wants to make it clear that those are not her wrinkles I’m smoothing out, they are a result of the cast moving as it set :-)
