MAKE subscriber Uros wrote to us to share the projects by some of the students in ENSCI, a product design school in Paris, France. I especially liked the design of the 3D scanner demonstrated in the video above. The scanner uses a laser pointer moving along a ring-shaped track around an object to find a set of 3D points that define the object’s shape. Be sure to check out all of the cool work by the students at ENSCI.
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Very cool and everything, but have you seen autodesk photo fly????
Very cool and everything, but have you seen autodesk photo fly????
photoFly. hummm just an other quicktime VR Robot. Not a 3D scanner for real things….;
No!
http://labs.autodesk.com/utilities/photo_scene_editor/
It is creates full 3d models with textures from just photgraphs!
I cannot belive how many people don’t know about it….
The only downside is that Autodesk control the servers it’s so could shut it down
any time they like, but at the moment it’s free and amazing!
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=videos&search_query=photofly&search_sort=video_date_uploaded&suggested_categories=28&uni=3
Wild invention. The mind is an amazing thing.
You can’t fool me. They are building a Stargate.
if you’re going to put up a demo video could you find anything more boring to scan than a sphere?
if you’re going to put up a demo video could you find anything more boring to scan than a sphere?
Curious to watch the evolution of the homemade 3d printer.
Scanning a half sphere? I think you could measure the diameter and make that with 2 click in most cad programs. I’m curious why they’re using a single point instead of a laser line, similar to the David software. The sparse point cloud they’re creating seems pretty low res as well, for such a nifty setup that’s been created.
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I just wonder why don’t make the specimen rotate continuously and move the sensor on a 90 degrees arc?
I just wonder why don’t make the specimen rotate continuously and move the sensor on a 90 degrees arc?
What? They’ve got the object to be scanned on a hard platform? C’mon people, there’s better ways to do it than that! Just string a couple of taut lengths of thin piano wire through the ring and carefully rest the object on them. Then you can scan all 360° of it in one scan. Then just delete the extraneous points caused by the piano wire.
This is fantastic work, as is typical with the French!