Gnome Reconstruction / Keeping the Character

This is a scanned sculpture repair project, separate from the older Gnomie game in the archive.

The first repair restored a usable overall form, including the hat. Missing or unreliable scan detail had to be approximated, so the result is a reconstruction rather than an exact measurement of the original sculpture.

Version two focused on specific areas instead of applying another global smoothing pass. The rough inner eye surfaces became smooth rounded caps, leaving eyelids and eyebrows in place. The blank eye surfaces were intended to be suitable for painting later.

The nose was rounded and lightly smoothed while retaining nostrils. The backs of the hands, curled fingers, and small palm defects received a similar local cleanup. Those changes kept the gesture intact rather than replacing it with a different pose.

The saved validation report describes a single closed mesh and no detected self-intersections. The model is about 88.8 mm tall when its coordinates are read as millimeters. Those checks say something about the exported geometry, not about print supports, durability, or fidelity to every detail of the original.

For the website, the before-and-after renders carry the story. The large mesh and editable project stay local. A photograph of the first successful print will be the next meaningful addition.