3D scanning seems magical enough without bringing things like Lego Mindstorms contraptions into the mix. Now a cat named Andy Barry (a research engineer at NASA Ames Research Laboratory's Autodesk ...

Modern Pro iPhone models have a LIDAR sensor on the back, and according to users, the best 3D scanner app to take advantage ...

Here’s an oldie but a goodie that passed us up the first time it went around the Internet. [Qi Pan], (former) PhD student at Cambridge, made a 3D modeling program using only a simple webcam. Not only ...

Microsoft’s research lab has announced a new technology that will make smartphone’s rear camera work like a 3D scanner that can automatically create 3D models that are supposed to be adequate for ...

Did you know that you can make an accurate 3D scanner without whizzing robot arms, expensive lasers, highly priced software and a doctorate in several arcane sciences? As it turns out, if you simply ...

Qi Pan, a 3rd Year PhD student at Cambridge University, has developed groundbreaking 3D scanning software that utilizes a standard web camera. This innovative software, named ProFORMA, can reproduce a ...

Once you have a 3D printer, making copies of objects like a futuristic Xerox machine is the name of the game. There are, of course, 3D scanners available for hundreds of dollars, but [Joshua] wanted ...

It’s called ProFORMA, or Probabilistic Feature-based On-line Rapid Model Acquisition, but it is way cooler than it sounds. The software, written by a team headed by Qi Pan, a student at the Department ...

The most accurate results are gained by using a true black and white camera. When you're satisfied with the settings, click the 'Start' button in the DAVID scanner and slowly pan the laser line over ...