Dear RP-World,
I haven't received any replies to a question about the 3-D scanner
market in a posting a few weeks ago, repeated below for reference. Maybe
this is because the question was buried at the end of the posting. So let me
repeat it here and invite people to take another look.
"-- Does anyone have any data on the growth of the 3-D scanner
market? It would be very interesting to know how this sister market of
ours is doing, and if they are growing more dynamically than us, there
may be some things we could learn from them."
I will post again with a summary if replies are received this time.
Best regards,
Marshall Burns
Marshall Burns wrote on Oct 9 1998:
> Dear RP-world,
>
> In the replies to Mike Murphy's request for suggestions on how to
> digitize a horse's head, I counted citations of at least five new
> scanner products (3-D cameras?, shape cameras?) that I had not heard of
> before. This field seems to be blossoming. Two points on this:
>
> -- The growth of 3-D scanners is very good news for the
> fabricator industry. The 3-D scanner is the inverse of a fabricator and
> it gives people a much easier way to create 3-D geometry data than by
> designing it themselves in CAD. Ultimately, people will look for ways to
> output that data again, as copies or modifications of the original
> objects. Remember, (3-D scanner + fabricator = 3-D copy or fax machine).
>
> -- Does anyone have any data on the growth of the 3-D scanner
> market? It would be very interesting to know how this sister market of
> ours is doing, and if they are growing more dynamically than us, there
> may be some things we could learn from them.
>
> Best regards,
> Marshall Burns
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