(NVision: Coppell, TX) -- NVision Inc. is helping sculptor Somers Randolph gain additional revenue by laser scanning his creations and saving them as computer models, which can later be used to reproduce the original works at any size on a 3-D printer. For example, Randolph’s wife, Hillary, has created a successful line of jewelry based on soapstone shapes that Randolph whittled in his spare time. Once these hand-crafted shapes are laser-scanned, duplicates can be produced with the click of a few buttons.

And there will no doubt be demand for those reproductions. As noted in the New Mexico Traveler Magazine: “Santa Fe master stone sculptor, Somers Randolph, combines creativity, skill, and passion to create exquisite artwork from stone and to whittle the intricate forms for his line of fine gold and silver jewelry.... When creativity combines with technical abilities, the result is a superb mastery of materials.”

“I often spend two to three months creating a shape in marble or other stone,” Somers Randolph says. “But for 30 years, once I made and sold them they were gone forever. Although technically I still own the forms of all the sculptures I’ve sold, in the past it was never practical to store or reproduce them.”

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