Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] help putting together a complete system

Hi All:
I was quoted $39,000 US for a turnkey laser scanning setup from
Renishaw.
Cheers

Marcus
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Date: Monday, June 04, 2001 3:15 PM
Subject: Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] help putting together a complete system

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>There are scannning laser digitisers for this sort of imaging. They use one
>on a TV show here called 'The Time Team' were it's these historians who try
>to find out what a village they have dug up might be like. When they find
>skulls they get someone to add muscles and skin to it with clay then send

it

>off to be scanned. It passes a scanning laser over the face and builds up

an

>entire 3D picture they can manipulate to add hair and skin textures to. I
>have no idea how much one of these would cost but I would expect it to be
>atleast a few thousand, it does scan a large area. Not large enough for
>entire sculptures but big enough for a bust if the person put their head in
>the scanning area. I think they'd have to hold very still for a good few
>minutes.
>Hospitals are using a new 3D ultra sound method that builds these pictures
>as well. It was made for scanning babies pre-birth really and then the

image

>is burnt into a resin/wax so you can see a 3D image of the baby incase

there

>is a problem with it somehow. I don't think that'd work on someone's head
>though.
>If you were going to be making many tens of these busts it might be worth
>just checking how much the laser scanners are. They are fairly new but have
>been around on TV for close to a year or more. I'm very interested in

lasers

>so I'll have a check next time I'm looking for things about them.
>
>John
>
>
>> Joe:
>>
>> I myself, also do photographs and carvings, I do not think there
>is
>> an inexpensive way to digitize the human head. I have read of software
>which
>> can do the job by pointing a table lamp at a person, a video camera at

the

>> person from a different angle, and then passing a pencil across the lamp.
>> The software generates a 3-d data set from analysing the line of shadow.
>You
>> might want to investigate that method for busts. I haven't seen a
>commercial
>> of shareware release of such a system though. Someone here might have and
>> can point the way for you.
>> Art
>>
>>
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