Dear RP-world,
In the replies to Mike Murphy's request for suggestions on how to
digitize a horse's head, I counted citations of at least five new
scanner products (3-D cameras?, shape cameras?) that I had not heard of
before. This field seems to be blossoming. Two points on this:
-- The growth of 3-D scanners is very good news for the
fabricator industry. The 3-D scanner is the inverse of a fabricator and
it gives people a much easier way to create 3-D geometry data than by
designing it themselves in CAD. Ultimately, people will look for ways to
output that data again, as copies or modifications of the original
objects. Remember, (3-D scanner + fabricator = 3-D copy or fax machine).
-- Does anyone have any data on the growth of the 3-D scanner
market? It would be very interesting to know how this sister market of
ours is doing, and if they are growing more dynamically than us, there
may be some things we could learn from them.
Best regards,
Marshall Burns
Marshall@Ennex.com
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