A 3d scanner for the home being developed

[The Mullinator]

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994737

This is a really cool idea, and its also pretty cheap considering what it does. It will probably be pretty useful for mod design.

EDIT: Heres the companies site. You can also see an example of something it has scanned near the bottom of its main page.

 

[Frank]

From what I understand it's going to be easy to model figures...

 

[simmo]

Looks like modeling progs will go out of bussiness! lo

Even a n3wb, can scan himself and booyahh!, a character model for thier mod, but I bet its gonna cost loads

 

[The Mullinator]

100 pounds. lol, so its actually pretty cheap.

 

[Sui]

100 pounds. lol, so its actually pretty cheap.

blooming hell... id get on eof those sharpish if i was making a mod! i wonder what the biggest thing u can scan in is... Lol, ur room!

 

[simmo]

100 quid!, whoa sweet

 

[Pauly]

Its a field day for modders....and cheap too...i think...i dunno how much 100 pounds are in $

 

[Murray_H]

£100? Jesus!

I might actually consider saving up and buying one

Awww next two years Ah well, will be so cool just to look at something and say ooo i would love to blow that up/shoot it (maybe i'll scan my dog in ) and then two seconds later you are doing that!

 

[Maxi]

Woah! but now the only thing is how large poly is it gonna make the things it scan in? 100 or 10000?

 

[The Mullinator]

whoops. I noticed in my edit I forgot to actually post the link to the main site. So here it is:

http://www.spiral-scratch.com/

 

[Dedalus]

a hundred fooking quid..it must have some sort of limitation or drawback or technicality. but if it's a hundred quid...shit i'd buy one for each room in my house. top stuff.

 

[Brian Damage]

If they get that right they are going to make so much money...

EDIT: That's a damn good scan of that moose, considering that it's fuzzy and all (the moose, not the scan).