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June 09, 2005

3D scanner on the cheap

[Bits of Life] Just caught this posting on the MAKE: Blog about someone working on an open source system for a DIY 3D scanning system. Project Splinescan currently uses a motion controlled laser line scanner and a controller for a turntable that rotates the object. If you would ever want to make your own scanner, or are just interested in how it works, the website has some good starting points detailing the basic math of scanning in this way.

Some slightly related from Technorati and Google.

[Larry Doe's Scanner Blog] Two Brain Scanning Center: Anthony Robinson has been working with Rex Lawson and Denis Hall of the Pianola Institute on some upgrades to their DuoArt perforator. This machine was originally configured to duplicate rolls using a tracker bar as input. Anthony has developed a hardware device to allow the perforator to accept input from a computer. As shown in the photo, the first output from the new interface was the recovered punch master from my "Rhapsody in Blue" scan.

[Photoshopsupport.com] Canon's New CanoScan LiDE 500F Scanner | Adobe Photoshop Blog: The included film guide can accept a 35mm film strip up to six frames in length. Whether scanning positives or negatives, the film adapter unit of the LiDE 500F scanner includes an infrared light source in addition to the white light source for FARE level 3 dust and scratch removal. FARE level 3 technology automatically performs an infrared scan that examines the film's surface for dust and scratches and removes most, if not all, of the unwanted imperfections from the final scan. Additional features include grain and fading correction for added productivity and also Backlight correction - a new function that lets users easily compensate for incorrectly exposed pictures due to back lighted subjects.

[Blog.photoblogs.org] blog.photoblogs.org: Medium Format Scanning: The Photoblogs.org Blog. Collaboratively created by Photoblogs.org members. ... Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Medium Format Scanning: ...

[Selberg.org] Erik Selberg » Blog Archive » Fun with a Nikon film scanner: So far, I’m happy with the scanner, and less thrilled with the scanning software. ... Erik Selberg's blog is proudly powered by WordPress v1.5 ...

[Blogs.sun.com] Richard McDougall's Weblog : Weblog: We distill the actionable performance information into forms that can be used by the Sun field engineers and to our customers. We make this information available through various mechanisms, including books, via TOI's at conferences, and papers (and now blogs ). Allan Packer has a wealth of knowledge on database tuning and capacity planning, -- he captured a lot of it in his book on Configuring and Tuning Databases. In the future, we will be communicating more of the timely information also through this medium.

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Posted at June 9, 2005 01:24 PM

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