With its experience crafting from metal,
Sandvik Coromant engineered a new kind of art and the help of artificial intelligence (AI). Henrik Loikkanen, technology area manager, and Jakob Pettersson, CAM and machining specialist, at Sandvik Coromant at Sandvik Coromant, combined their metal cutting expertise with AI-generated, stainless steel synthesis to create a reimagined replica of history’s most famous works of art.
The sculpture combines the work of Michelangelo, Auguste Rodin, Käthe Kollwitz, Kotaro Takamura and Augusta Savage, some of history’s most famous artists from a period spanning 500 years.
After establishing a 2D design that brought together the styles of the five artists, Sandvik began translating the model into a complete 3D image. It used depth estimators to build the 3D model, human pose estimators to refine the body, video game algorithms to generate realistic fabric and specialized AI to reintroduce fine details that were lost in previous steps. Using Mastercam software, a design for a statue with more than six million surfaces and complex details was converted.