I’ve been having a lot of fun printing heads with a Structure scanner. It’s a different category of 3D scanner and has completely different applications though.
I've been having a lot of fun printing heads with a Structure scanner. It's a different category of 3D scanner and has completely different applications though.
What is a structure scanner? A hand held device? Curious to know which you have been using and what you think of the results.
I have had myself scanned by a 20000 euro scanner, of which the owner said all the others were crap (but maybe he was just justifying his steep investment :)
I talked to the isense makers which use the occipital struture sense scanner and they said that the scanner will not scan anything less than 8" which is a bummer and from their videos it doesnt reflect those sentiments.
Was loooking forward to a fairly priced detail scanner for 8" and below.
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Unfortunately the scanners can only pick up objects with a minimum size of 8" cubed.
you could, better on a cloudy day because the reflective surfaces will trouble the ir sensor. You could also mask them with sth non reflective (matte spray, talc powder etc) but also have in mind that with bigger objects and thus greater working distance, you also get less accuracy
For scanning cars, many people use wax polish. It goes matt white when it dries, then you polish it off afterwards. You scan it at the matt white stage. But don't tell anyone, it's a trade secret ;-)
IMO the very best people scanners use a process called photogrammetry. They use something like 100 or more DSLR's all sync'd together. You can capture a whole person in 1/10000th second which means their movement, which is almost impossible to eliminate, does not effect the results. You can even jump in the air and get a perfect high res scan. But with that many DLSR's (not cheap ones either) it costs a lot to set up. A friend of mine does it in the UK, and he scans for the big computer games companies and the film industry, but his results are outstanding.
What is a structure scanner? A hand held device? Curious to know which you have been using and what you think of the results.
I have had myself scanned by a 20000 euro scanner, of which the owner said all the others were crap (but maybe he was just justifying his steep investment
It attaches to an iPad. It isn’t very good for small objects and I haven’t tried it on a car (I will now though, great idea), but it’s great for scanning people. Here’s one that took me three minutes to scan and 15 minutes to prep the model for printing: http://imgur.com/UDbnMwf
@Ted, nice. I was actually thinking to redesign some of the parts of Atlas to make it no so square.
It is a bit like functional parts glued together instead of being design as a product.
It works, but can absolutely be improved, with not too much work, i hope. That is the nice thing of open source projects, tinker till you like it...
I am looking at the funding progress on kicktraq. Experience with other projects tells me Atlas will end somewhere round $200.000 (instead of the projected $284.000) , so the last stretch goal (live 3d view) may or may not be reached...
