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Long Night of Research

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The long night of research (in German “Lange Nacht der Forschung”) on Friday last week was a great success for PROFACTOR and ReconstructMe. We had around 300 people visiting and exploring our robotics, nano-tech and chemistry labs.

At the ReconstructMe booth we had a lot of fun reconstructing our visitors and enjoyed the in-depth discussions with potential users and developers. What really surprised us was how quickly people learnt to use this new technology to scan their family members.

We used the swivel armchair setup to speed up the reconstruction process and provided each visitor a personalized 3DPDF containing an embedding of their reconstruction. Here are two such samples: one, two (Acrobot Reader required to view the embedding)

Here’s a video made at the event

Pictures by CityFoto.

Scan of a Nissan Qashqai using Volume Stitching

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A few days ago we tested our new feature volume stitching which enables the rough alignment of multiple volumes. We did a quick scan of a car using 1.5m sized volumes. What you can see below is the raw output of ReconstructMe without any filtering or post processing, except slightly repositioning of one of the volumes. We made up a promo video demonstrating the process and the results:

As you can see, ReconstructMe is running on a laptop and we are using the Asus Xtion Pro Live for better mobility and flexibility in scanning. We have a quite big release in the queue featuring among other things

  • Volume stitching
  • 3D Surface preview
  • PLY file support

Stay tuned.

Gallery Update – ReconstructMe + ZBrush

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Skaale sent us the following reconstruction of Tine. Glasses where used to increase the resolution, which probably required manual stitching of the individual views.

Here’s a turntable animation of the final result

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Gallery Update – Mirrors

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MagWeb uses mirrors to cut down reconstruction time to a third when compared to a standard walk-around turn. Here are a couple of images.

And a turntable video of the result.

In case you like to know more about how to do that, join our discussion.

Gallery Update – Bags

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Refael sent us these nicely rendered open-bags scanned with ReconstructMe and rendered with Mantra.

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Scan of a Fiat 500 Cabrio

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MagWeb, has done another incredible stunning scan an open-top Fiat 500C. Here’s a video of a turntable animation of his results

MagWeb will post images later on in the newsgroup and we intend to provide the resulting CAD model, once we have resolved legal questions.

Character Creation with a ReconstructMe Scan

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We have created a full body scan one of our coworkers while using a bigger volume, and he used this as the basis for a character animation.

  1. The most difficult part of the scanning process was to stand still and not move the arms. We solved this problem by letting the model hold a broomstick in each hand :) This data was later removed from the CAD scan.
  2. To animate the skin of the character a biped system from 3Ds Max was used.
  3. Finally, With Motion Mixer from 3Ds Max, several BIP files were loaded to affect biped motion.

The result looks quite stunning! Here is a video with the result:

Here are some more screenshots:

Zoom Lense Results

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MagWeb modded his Kinect with 2.5+ glasses (zoom-lens) to increase the resolution in near range. He applied a custom depth calibration and was able to reconstruct nearly 360°. Here are some early results.

More information can be found in the corresponding newsgroup thread.

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Gallery Update

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Jaco sent us the following images of reconstructions he did in past few days: His family, a spinning chair (animated Gif when clicked) and himself.

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Another Set of Scans

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Mattia sent us the following beautiful collection of 3d scans he made. Click on a thumbnail to enlarge.

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Incredible Scan of a Fiat 500C

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MagWeb provides us the following incredible scan of a Fiat 500C, stitched and fusioned from 33 volumes.

Besides ReconstructMe, MagWeb uses DAVID for stitching and fusioning the volumes and Meshmixer for cleaning up. As soon as we get hold of the 3D model, we will update this post.

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