A system that uses a technique called constructive solid geometry (CSG) is allowing MIT researchers to deconstruct objects and turn them into 3D models, thereby allowing them to reverse-engineer complex things. The system appeared in a paper entitled “InverseCSG: Automatic Conversion of 3D Models to CSG Trees” by Tao Du, Jeevana Priya Inala, Yewen Pu, […]
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The Uffizi Galleries partnered with Indiana University to digitize their entire sculpture collectionThe Uffizi Digitization Project currently hosts over 300 interactive 3D scans of the Gallery’s masterpieces that you can view in detail from the comfo…
View More You no longer have to go to Italy to study these 300 museum artifacts up closeThis autonomous 3D scanner figures out where it needs to look
If you need to make a 3D model of an object, there are plenty of ways to do so, but most are only automated to the extent that they know how to spin in circles around that object and put together a mesh. This new system from Fraunhofer does it mo…
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