Tuesday, January 11, 2011

3D scanning on your phone

I knew it was a matter of time. Iphone 4 has a new app called Trimensional

more can be found here: http://www.trimensional.com/

This works like a structured light scanner. It uses your screen to project a patterned image onto an object and uses your camera  to collect the data.
http://www.trimensional.com/




Android phones have an app that I have been playing with called simply 3D Scanner.
It is in it's beta stage and takes much more work to get acceptable results. You can download the app here.

http://www.androidzoom.com/android_applications/tools/3d-scanner_jmal.html

 The developer's website is located here http://www.photo-to-3d.com/

 

This is based on photogrammetry obviously. It doesn't compensate for the apparent differences in android phones. which I would imagine would be a daunting task. But it's ambitious none the less.