. >> reporter: the ormgal is on the left. it's made of wood. the likeness is on the right. it's plastic and not the same color as the original. otherwise the two are identical. they even weigh the same. >> i'm happy we have made a statue that will be displayed along with historical objects. now i want to get busy preventing other statues from being robbed. >> reporter: the students are studying industrial design at the area's technical high school. making the high school was part of the curriculum. they did the measuring with a high efficiency laser device. it records surfaces from different angle and is accurate to a tiny fraction of a millimeter. it then processes the data. the statue isn't damaged. a special printer created a 3-d image. the students build the model with melted resin. each layer is quarter of a millimeter thick. if the likeness is stolen, it can be replaced. this is the first temple in the country to substitute an original statue with a remembpl made by high school students. the museum curator came up with the idea. >> translator: if we asked a company to