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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...