DIY Laser scanner

[Radikalizm]

I was googling for some random 3D and animation related stuff, things like mocap and such, and I found this: http://homebiss.blogspot.com/2009/02/di ... anner.html

This is a laser scanner based on a line laser pointer and a webcam, and it seems to get some pretty decent results
Since I have all the required hardware to build this I think I'm going to give this a try

[Adler1337]

I made that exact same thing a few years ago (it's still sitting in my closet). I never got very good results though.

[ACE247]

Brilliant! Thanks for reminding me on trying this.
I have some grossly accurate(1rph ) old telescope drive motors here, will turn those into a Laser Scanner for super smooth line movement.
At 30FPS that's 108'000Frames

[mongoose7]

It's very similar to the Kinect, if I assume they use parallax to compute depth. Otherwise, it reminds me of Photomodeller, and I don't know why they would need a laser. Ah, yes I do. PM requires *you* to identify corresponding points.

[Granyte]

nice i may try to build one to

[netpipe]

kickass its like ProFORMA

[hybrid]

Yeah, I just met the DAVID laserscanner guys on a trade fair. Their whole system (full commercial software version, webcam and laser line pointer) is just 300€. But I didn't test their software so far, I'll try soon though. Just got my laser sent