The Cadillac Elmiraj concept left us drooling over a beautiful coupe that may never see the light of day as a production car. The folks over at Cadillac call it a “work of art”, and we have to agree with them. It’s a work of art we dearly need on the streets, and we won’t take no for an answer.
But since we can’t point a gun at GM’s head, we’ll just have to wait and see what happens... and report about anything related to this stunning concept car. Which reminds us, Cadillac has just released a video about the concept car’s styling and how they used GM’s advanced structured-light 3-D scanning technology to create the Elmiraj.
“With the Elmiraj, we were able to use 3-D scanning as the bridge between traditional hand-sculpting teams who work in clay and digital modeling design teams who work in math,” said Frank Saucedo, director of General Motors’ North Hollywood Advanced Design Studio. “Our ability to scan the clay model with speed and precision and go from the digital tools to the hands of a craftsman and vice versa was extremely valuable.”
Scroll below for more on this interesting process that’s mainly used for fine art restoration and reproduction.
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