MUSEUM EXHIBIT / REPLICA
Ice Core Exhibit
The Ontario Science Centre commissioned an ice-core exhibit. Our part was to make the core itself and bring out its layers with light.
ABOUT THE MODEL
Layers you can see
We tested different resin mixtures and consistencies until we found the combination of material and light that made the layers visible. Lit from below, the full-scale, 48-inch core shows its layers through the resin, and visitors get a direct sense of the real object's size rather than inferring it from a diagram.
At 1:1, there's nothing to scale up in your head: visitors see the core at its real size. That put the material at the center of the job. The resin had to show its internal layers when lit from below, not just look like an opaque cylinder.
Explore Archetype3D’s museum & exhibit models- Project type
- Museum exhibit / replica
- Size
- 4 × 48 in
- Scale
- 1:1
- Purpose
- Full-scale ice core for a science centre exhibit
- Features
- Layered resin core developed through material tests; lit from below
- Client
- Ontario Science Centre
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