3D Scanning
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Indoor climbing walls don’t always capture the nuances of nature, so researchers developed a way to bring the outdoors in. Rather than recreate an entire rock formation, they made models of the key parts of the geometry and arranged them on an artificial wall to replicate the real thing.
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You may not think of a wedding cake as being the type of thing that gets vandalized, but that's what happened to a replica of the cake that was presented to Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip in 1947. Now, thanks to 3D scanning technology, a super-accurate copy of that replica is being recreated.
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Traditional plaster casts are a hassle. A team of Colorado-based entrepreneurs, however, has developed a 21st century alternative – the ActivArmor support device.
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How worn are your tires? Perhaps you check them by hand regularly, but if you don't, Nokian has developed an alternative. The Finnish tire manufacturer recently announced its SnapSkan service, which uses a 3D scanner to check users' tires as the car is on the road and in motion.
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A recent study suggested that the number of unique species on Earth is 1 trillion. Granted, the vast majority of those are microbes, but still, Digital Life's goal to make 3D scans of every kind of living animal is very ambitious.
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A professor at UW wants to catch 'em all, but he isn't content with just 700 Pokemon. His ambitions are a little loftier, aiming to collect and scan all 25,000 known species of fish, to create 3D models of their skeletons which can then be freely downloaded, 3D printed and studied.
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ScienceA new fingerprint scanner that could find its way to our smartphones borrows from sophisticated medical equipment to deliver more accurate, 3D ultrasonic scanning.
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The Microsoft Kinect may be facing some competition. The Motion Contrast 3D Scanning (MC3D) camera should also be economical, while offering higher-quality imaging and the ability to operate in sunlight.
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When we first heard about the NavVis system a couple of years ago, it was being developed for indoor navigation. Now, the technology has been expanded to the point that it could give Google Street View a run for its money.
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Swiss company Dacuda is tapping into the growing trend of food pictures on social networks with an app for iPhones that enables users to take 3D shots of food. Called 3DAround, it combines sophisticated software and the iPhone's gyroscope to produce holographic imagery.
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ScienceResearchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have created a long-range, laser-based imaging device that generates high-definition 3D maps of objects at distances of up to 10.5 meters (35 ft) using an advanced LADAR system.
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Intel has been working on a 3D scanner small enough to fit in the bezel of even the thinnest tablets. The company aims to have the technology in tablets from 2015, with CEO Brian Krzanich telling the crowd at MakerCon in New York on Thursday that he hopes to put the technology in phones as well.
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