Surface Digitizing, 3D Digitizing

• Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology : Surface Imaging of the Human Body "An optical surface scanner was used to digitize and model an adult female torso to demonstrate the feasibility of whole body 3D surface anthropometry. This 3D surface scanner employs structured light and has an acquisition time of less than one second for a 0.4 x 0.4 x 0.4 meter sample volume."
  
  
• The Challenge of 3D Digitizing by Terry Wohlers " it's easy to get excited about 3D digitizing. After all, it's a technology that promises to do away with the need to laboriously re-create by hand the 3D data of an existing object. Instead, you just take the physical object, scan it, and voila, you instantly have a complete 3D model ready to be edited and modified in your CAD system. Unfortunately, it's really not that simple, and before you let your plans for using 3D digitizing get too ambitious, it's important to understand the technology's limitations."
  
  
• HYMARC 3-D Vision Systems "Hymarc's primary product, the Hyscan 45, is a high performance 3D scanning laser digitizer which rapidly acquires precise XYZ data points from any object.  Hyscan systems map surface information in a continuous high speed non-contact fashion with ± 0.001" (± 0.025mm) ±3 sigma accuracy, which satisfies demanding applications such as reverse engineering, design, rapid prototyping and inspection. The Hyscan laser digitizer is designed to fit to any Coordinate Measuring Machine (CMM), Computer Numerically Controlled (CNC) Machine, or other translation device. The integrated design yields a powerful, yet user friendly, system which can be quickly and easily interchanged with existing probes or tools. "
  
  
  • "Hymarc has opened an international 3D Multimedia Services Division at the Canadian Museum of Civilization to provide museums worldwide with 3D digitizing, 3D virtual reality (VR) content, turnkey 3D VR systems, museum websites, interactive visitor kiosks, digitally accurate object replication services and other multimedia services.
    
    
  • Hymarc will be presenting museum VR content in partnership with Silicon Graphics at the American Association of Museums 94th Annual Meeting and MuseumExpo99 in Cleveland, April 25-29, 1999."
    
    
• Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering VirtualANTHROPOS, Development Association for Human Modeling in Virtual Reality : VirtualANTHROPOS
  
  
• Center for Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery, Carnegie Mellon University "Medical robotics spans broad areas of science and engineering to realize intelligent machines for clinical practice. Robotic technologies can improve existing medical practice as well as provide innovative new approaches to current problems. A new breed of computer-based devices presents medicine with new tools that can do much to augment physicians' skills." MRCAS - Surgical Robotics for Orthopaedics
  
  
• ENTEC's Laser Digitizing Service for Reverse Engineering "Reverse engineering is the rising star of rapid product development. The need to capture undocumented three dimensional geometry quickly has never been more important. ENTEC's Laser Digitizing Service meets this challenge. Virtually any three dimensional object can be scanned. Digitized data is processed with Datasculpt software and is typically exported to any CAD system as IGES entity #106 - 3D Polyline."
  
  
• Modern Engineering (Troy, Michigan) verifying expensive production dies and molds.
  
  
• Engineering Technology Advisor : Reverse Engineering Going Foward...Fast
  
  
• VISIOLAM - A Workstation for Volumetric Data Acquisition
  
  
• MaxSurf, 3D Hull Modeling (Ships, nice diversion)
  
  
• NASA : Pictures digitized using GEOLAB's Cyberware 3D laser digitizer: X-15, YF-22 ATV, ATP Langley Experimental Fighter NASA Langley Research Center GEOmetry Laboratory
  
  
• Vision-Based Surface Strain Measurement System by D.W. Manthey and D. Lee
  
  
• The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society publishes JOM