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What are my options?

I don't have a lot of identical cameras to sync up. A person can only hold so still. Commercial scanning bureaus are still fairly expensive...

Thinking about

AgiSoft Photoscan

Autodesk 123D

My3DScanner

PhotoSculpt

...stuff like that.

Anyone have any experience / recommendations?

if you are willing to put in the time to fix, remodel and retopologize your scans in 3dcoat, zbrush or mudbox you can use some free beta softwares that use the kinect:

matherix
reconstruct me

if you already have a video projector, you could use david structured light scanner solution. still, a lot of cleanup and remodeling will have to be done.

even with very expensive 3d scanners, you'll have to do some cleanup.

i've not had very good results with the photogrammetry solutions you listed.

Thank you.

I should add that I mainly intend to model digital facial decorations for a single photo of a person, so 'good' may be an overstatement of what I really need. I'm actually looking for a surface good enough to match position and angle with a photo so I can get virtual-to-real reflection, refraction, shadow casting, placement, etc, but the virtual version of the face would be hidden from primary rays.



Imagine something along these lines but with more reflective or refractive elements, and with most of the mask in Maya / Maxwell and most of the face as a photo I light, position, and take, and Photoshop to combine it all in a single frame. No animation.

yolk wrote:if you are willing to put in the time to fix, remodel and retopologize your scans in 3dcoat, zbrush or mudbox you can use some free beta softwares that use the kinect:

matherix
reconstruct me

if you already have a video projector, you could use david structured light scanner solution. still, a lot of cleanup and remodeling will have to be done.

I'm starting to look at these now. Great suggestions.

jfrancis wrote:
Anyone have any experience / recommendations?

i mention this because i tried it and it gives great results.. saw that thing at the euromold fare/frankfurt last december, and we managed to get the kind lady at the booth to make a complete scan of my colleague who i was with.

took about 5 min..

you don't need to hold still! it is hand held and you simply need to go slowly over the surfaces; it takes many photos photos per second and a software merges the data. accuracy .2-1mm depending on device model.
BUT the great thing is you get a fully textured model in really good quality!!

> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7SH3zxD ... detailpage
> http://www.artec3d.com/gallery/interactive-3d/
> http://www.artec3d.com

so if you only need a single scan you could try to get a "test session" at some local distributor?!

polynurb wrote:
i mention this because i tried it and it gives great results.. saw that thing at the euromold fare/frankfurt last december, and we managed to get the kind lady at the booth to make a complete scan of my colleague who i was with.

Interesting; thanks