From: Deelip Menezes (deelipmenezes@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed Jul 03 2002 - 16:03:17 EEST
Well, Bathsheba is surely into some real good stuff.
On a similar note, today we released Point Cloud for Rhino
(http://www.fpsols.com/point_cloud_rh.html). This Rhino plug-in will read an
unorganized point cloud and convert it into an organised surface, for
reverse engineering purposes. Comments, suggestions, criticizm are most
welcome.
This plug-in was developed on the request of Dr. Schmitt (who is on this
list). Thought I should let you people know.
/Deelip Menezes
>From: Bathsheba Grossman <sheba@bathsheba.com>
>To: <rp-ml@rapid.lpt.fi>
>Subject: RE: Novice 3d scan question: stitching point clouds
>Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 11:56:17 -0700 (PDT)
>
>On Sat, 29 Jun 2002, Anshuman Razdan wrote:
> > Hmm interesting that you want the points aligned but don't want a mesh
> > like Geomagic would produce. One alternative is to use Geomagic to
> > combine the points let it be wrapped and meshed. Then you can sort of
> > sample the surface as just points. Throw away the topology and keep the
> > geometry (points). Would u describe your application a bit more as I am
> > puzzled that you don't want more than points.
>
>I'm doing subsurface laser etching in glass blocks. This technology
>just plots points in 3D - no lines or surfaces - so it renders point
>clouds simply as point clouds, with no need for any more structure.
>It's quite nifty really: not very big, but things can be done with the
>medium that just aren't on the table with carved or built models.
>
>I personally am more interested in sculptural and scientific models
>(there are two at http://bathsheba.com/crystal), but I know people who
>want to etch scanned portraits and other objects, and I figured this
>would be the place to ask.
>
>Thanks to everyone for helpful suggestions!
>
>It seems like all the software that does this is very expensive and
>also does a lot of other things not relevant to this application. So
>we'll probably end up either getting it done as a service, or with me
>writing a wee tool to do the job.
>
>--
>-Sheba
>Bathsheba Grossman (831) 429-8224
>Sculpture bathsheba.com
>Creative prototyping protoshape.com
>
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