Event report – New perspectives in 3D digitisation!

Report on our event 3D Digitisation in the Service of Culture and the Creative Industries, hosted by the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design.

On 29 May 2025, the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design hosted the much-needed professional day that examined the role of 3D digitisation in the preservation of cultural heritage and in the creative industries. Organised jointly by FreeDee Kft. and Tripont Cultural Heritage Solutions, the event was not merely a technology showcase but also a forum for starting a dialogue, where art historians, conservators, museum professionals, designers and technology experts shared their experiences.

Balázs Peti, Managing Director of Tripont Kft., opens the professional day.

MKE – Digital Form-Making Lab

In the opening lecture, Ádám Albert and Attila Mézes (Hungarian University of Fine Arts) spoke about the relationship between form-making and digitisation. The Digital Form-Making Lab, founded in the period before COVID, aims to develop an analogue approach in parallel with digital competences. In this project, the various 3D digitisation procedures play a prominent role.

Website of the Form-Making Lab: Digital Form-Making Lab

Ádám Albert presents the Digital Form-Making Lab

CultArm3D – Verus Digital

The lecture by Gerald Schnittger (Verus Digital) presented the possibilities of automated, high-resolution 3D modelling, for which the CultArm3D system serves as the basis. The project, which began as a side project of the Fraunhofer robotics company, aims to combine fully automated 3D digitisation with exceptional resolution. In the lecture we learnt about the company’s developments, such as a unified 3D quality control system.

Verus Digital website: Verus Digital

Gerald Schnittger demonstrates how the CultArm3D system works

The digitisation made on the open day is available in our Heritage archive service.

Péter Szabó, Technical Manager of FreeDee, used Hungarian examples – among them the interactive museum of the Immortal Hungarian Athletes (Halhatatlan Magyar Sportolók), monuments, vintage vehicles and even a 200-forint coin – to show how Artec 3D scanners, as market leaders, help fast and accurate museum digitisation both in Hungary and worldwide. He stressed that modern equipment is now usable and accessible to anyone.

FreeDee website: FreeDee 3D printer and 3D scanner specialist

Lecture by Péter Szabó, Technical Manager of FreeDee

Representing the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Benjamin Kuti spoke about how they work with the 3D models created in their digitisation lab. In his lecture he presented the workflows of 3D digitisation in an accessible way and offered useful advice on photogrammetry techniques.

He highlighted that the greater part of the road to a quality model is made up not by the digitisation process itself but by the preparation and post-processing.

Museum of Fine Arts Sketchfab: Szépművészeti Múzeum - A 3D model collection by MuseuMap - Sketchfab

Benjamin Kuti’s lecture on 3D digitisation workflows

In his closing lecture, our colleague Dániel Bedő (Tripont) emphasised a systems- and quality-based approach to digitisation, which he illustrated with examples such as our joint project with the National Photo Archive (Nemzeti Fotótár).

An exciting technological outlook was also provided by multispectral imaging, with which it is possible to recover data, for example from historical documents, that can no longer be seen with the naked eye.

The final part of the lecture focused on photometric stereo photography and its usability in heritage preservation.

Our colleague Dániel Bedő presents the Phase One iXH 150 system

A strength of the event was that, besides the practical demonstrations and the opportunity to try out the technological equipment, a genuine professional discourse also developed. Participants not only became acquainted with new techniques but also made inspiring professional contacts.

The presentations of the professional day are available through our Heritage archive service.