Museum Scan — Meet the makers
JACK DEFAY, MUSEUM SCAN,
Jack's company turns real-world objects into digital assets. Museum artifacts, research archives, prototypes - anything that needs to exist in 3D form on a screen. He's based in Waltham, and his team scans everything from 3D-printed parts to a 300-year-old statue. No two jobs get treated the same way.Their first project ever scanned was a mummified ibis from Cornell's collection. That's why it's on their logo. Their largest job was a Curtiss JN-4D "Jenny" airplane, a WWI-era biplane that took an entire day to capture.When I showed up to shoot his portrait, Jack was mid-scan on a Mayan snake head: ancient birds, WWI aircraft, now this. There's no such thing as a slow day on his workbench.This is what Meet the Makers is about. Not just what a business does on paper, but what actually crosses someone's desk on a given Tuesday. Jack's version of that is more interesting than most.
