Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Software Turns Webcam into 3D Scanner

“It’s called ProFORMA, or Probabilistic Feature-based On-line Rapid Model Acquisition, but it is way cooler than it sounds. The software, written by a team headed by Qui Pan, a student at the Department of Engineering at Cambridge University in England, turns a regular, cheap webcam into a 3D scanner.”

Read more about it at the Gadget Lab on WIRED.com

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