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Tuesday, 14 May 2013 09:55
My Father In-Law as Richelieu
It is not easy to scan human faces with a camera, but it is possible. The key to success is good lighting. On top of that, I’d stay away from attempts of scanning someone’s head with 360 degrees view. A person will not stay still even for 30 seconds, and…
Friday, 01 February 2013 09:12
Sketchfab Supports Point Clouds!
Many of My3DScanner users are already familiar with the brilliant service provided by Sketchfab which enables publishing interactive 3D models in WebGL supported browsers. The exciting news is that now you can publish not only polygon models, but point clouds as well. And even more: Sketchfab’s newest material editor (interactive…
Friday, 17 August 2012 15:14
Be Practical: Smash The Mesh
We have come up with a technology which automatically turns 3D models into real things. The technology is called SmashTheMesh because it basically smashes or wraps 3D models or a group of models around any shape (a 3D template) as a relief. This way one can use imperfect 3D…
Wednesday, 15 February 2012 06:58
3D Viewer de Sculpteo
Sculpteo is another great 3D printing service and a competitor of popular Shapeways. Both Sculpteo and Shapeways have excellent features, but there is a huge technological difference between them: while Shapeways is Dutch, Sculpteo is purely French! Sculpteo’s has very elegant interface. Their 3D viewer is just superb. Actually it…
Tuesday, 31 January 2012 05:35
My3dscanner goes into the space
My friend Eduard is a rocket scientist. He works for a Russian space program. He’s got a lot of spare time recently as only few Russian satellites reach their orbits, so he decided to turn a 3D model into the physical object. Being a creative person, Eddy just took a…
Friday, 28 October 2011 13:10
Scanning With A Mobile Phone: No Way
I am often asked why we don’t develop mobile applications for iPhone or Android. The answer is simple: my3dscanner requires much better quality photos than a mobile phone can fetch (actually everything said about mobile phone scanning concerns video). To get good or very good 3D reconstruction our engine requires…
Wednesday, 10 August 2011 12:26
How to Make a Nature-Mort in 3D
I decided to try an artistic use of my3dscanner. The goal is to make a sort of a relief for visualization and perhaps for physical creation. I will be using only free software for the whole process. This is my workflow: 1. Composition and scanning My3dscanner works with textured…
Thursday, 21 July 2011 14:09
David and Photofly Goliath
David McGahan of Ponoko asked a good question which made me wonder how well empires like Autodesk compare with our small my3dscanner amateurs’ team (we started our project just 7 months ago). I was really excited downloading Photofly expecting a 3D revelation like Bundler and PMVS. Well, it is seems that Autodesk's…
Friday, 15 July 2011 13:52
Tutorial: Understanding Your 3D Model
In this tutorial you will learn how to start editing and rendering your my3dscanner project files, visualize and evaluate your model. The photo above illustrates a typical result which you will get after this tutorial and basically with no additional work. The sample project used in this tutorial was made…
Thursday, 09 June 2011 08:15
Customizing Napoleon
My friend Misho had a birthday so I wanted to make him a heavily customized gift. Since he has all kinds of vodka bottles and T-shirts with his portraits, I needed to figure out something new. My idea was simple: make a small but real bust of him. Since I…
Monday, 16 May 2011 13:05
We Were Blogged
No, our simple service is not on CNN or Bloomberg breaking news. But there is something which is more important for us. We are very excited that my3dscanner.com has been spotted by thousands of visitors from around the world without any advertisement attempts from us. Hundreds of smart and creative…
Friday, 06 May 2011 08:00
Thingiverse Turns My Scan into a Real Thing
Many of you have probably heard about 3D printing. It’s a process of additive manufacturing when an object is created by adding layers of plastic materials. But I had not been aware of how big a community of talented 3D artists, engineers, designers and 3D printing enthusiasts was until I…
Friday, 22 April 2011 10:44
Venice in Clouds Part III of III: I Wish I Knew
I think I’ve learned something in San Marco square. There were many mistakes I made and not all my Venetian projects were good. Let me try to scan something practical and useful. I and my wife went to Peggy Guggenheim Collection at Palazzo Venier dei Leoni. This is one…
Tuesday, 19 April 2011 14:04
Venice in Clouds Part II of III: Light
While scanning at San Marco square I realized that probably instead of incomplete 3D models of large buildings I can make complete scans of architectural fragments and interesting artifacts incorporated in large structures. This is more practical in terms of photographing. This makes much more sense for future use…
Monday, 18 April 2011 07:16
Venice in Clouds Part I of III: Ambitions
It was snowing when we arrived in Venice in March. Very soon clouds vanished and sun began to shine. But I went to Venice to create clouds! Let me share with you both good and bad scanning experience in Venice. It’s a city of inspiration. I have learned quite a…
Friday, 25 March 2011 12:10
How to Mesh Point Cloud with SketchUp
Let’s confess: not everybody has talent to create an artistic 3D model. I don’t. I can create a couple of cubes in Google SketchUp (SU) and call it Toyota RAV4 (I suspect this is how they did it). But to create something a little more artistic let’s scan a thing,…
Monday, 14 March 2011 09:37
3D Scanning in a Zoo
Our users like to scan animals, particularly lions. There are a lot of these beasts around Old Europe; it’s almost like a zoo! Lions are easy to scan especially when they are made of sand stone or marble. Look at some of the examples submitted by our talented users. Click…
Monday, 28 February 2011 13:09
Creating an Artistic 3D with No Talent
I have no artistic talent at all. But I always suspected it is not that difficult to be an artist or designer. One just needs to dress like a bump and go to some freaky boozing parties. I told myself: let me create something at least tangentially artistic with My3DScanner and…
Monday, 21 February 2011 11:09
How to Integrate Point Cloud into Google SketchUp
You can create an accurate blueprint for modeling of a real object in SketchUp using free 3D photo-based scanner. Points created with www.my3dscanner.com will serve as construction marks for SketchUp model. Later you can link construction points automatically or manually to create complex polygonal replicas of the real world in…
Friday, 04 February 2011 09:24
Watch Your Kids!
I am not sure this article fits into category “Practical Use”, but in a way it does, because sometimes www.my3scanner.com even helps to raise your children. Main portal of Grand Palais in Paris is beautiful. I decided to make few tests of My3Dscanner there. There was a small bar-relief…
Monday, 17 January 2011 12:06
Shapeways: The Shortest Way to Make and Sell Your Creations
I think I have found a great solution for an obvious question of how to practically use my 3D scans. Shapeways is a mind-blowing project linking creativity and manufacturing. You create 3D model, Shapeways manufactures it makes it available to public and ships internationally on your behalf. How they make a…
Thursday, 13 January 2011 15:58
Alhambra Part II: Testing My New Sony NEX-5 as 3D Scanner
There are many beautiful objects to scan in Alhambra, and I quickly made photographs of a column’s capital which I liked. I had new Sony NEX-5 camera as Christmas gift from my wife, so it was real fun to scan with a new great camera. There was no use of its max 17 MP…
Wednesday, 12 January 2011 13:05
Alhambra Part I:Dense Point Cloud with Few Photos
My friends at My3DScanner asked me to test their system on something easy. Let me share with you my experience and tell you one important technical secret. I happened to travel in Spain. I’ve never been to the famous Alhambra in Grenada and decided to test this on-line 3D photodigitizing…
