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| Near Uses Geomagic Studio Software to Model Virtual West End of London |
London Evening Standard readers will get more than their newspaper today: They’ll be offered a DVD from a company called Near that transports them to the West End of London – including Oxford Street, Piccadilly Circus and other famous destinations – without leaving their homes. Others around the world will be able to experience the virtual gateway to London’s West End by downloading it through the Near web site.
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| A New Era In Desktop 3D Printing |
| Solido3D, the technological leader in desktop 3D printing of physical models, has launched the new SD300 Pro 3D printer. With the new SD300 Pro, high quality 3D printing is finally accessible to every MCAD engineer, design professional, and hobbyist. |
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| The Merging of Art and 3D Technology |
| Sculptor Andrew Werby has been in on the merging of art and technology from the beginning. In the late ’70s and early ‘80s, he and several like-minded artists began the Juxtamorphic art movement, collaborating to put on art shows featuring sculpture, painting, photography, ceramics and performance art drawing on directly-captured nature for inspiration. |
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| 3D Body Digitizers Unravelling Human Morphology |
Creaform, a world-class company in 3D technology and engineering services, is proud to announce that its 3D Body Digitizers are generating outstanding and valuable results for a large-scale scientific project on human morphology led by the University of Calgary.
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| CT Scans Digitally "Unwrap" Mummy |
This summer, a 2,500 year-old Egyptian mummy went home. Not to Egypt, but to the San Francisco Legion of Honor, which finally brought back its resident mummy after loaning him out to a Stockton museum for the past 65 years.
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| METRIS Inspect-X 1.6 Doubles CT Reconstruction Speed |
Metris, market-leading supplier of X-ray and industrial Computed Tomography systems, launches Inspect-X 1.6 software that boosts throughput by increased CT reconstruction speed and improved general system control. Following Metris' drive for continual X-ray and CT system improvement, Inspect-X 1.6 further enhances system usability and introduces a faster CT reconstruction engine and support of latest Perkin Elmer panels.
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| 3D Laser Mapping First To Equip Kenya With Advanced Laser Scanner |
| East Africa is set to benefit from the latest laser mapping technology following the purchase of a high specification laser scanner by Kenyan firm Ramani Geosystems. Supplied by UK-based 3D Laser Mapping, the Riegl LMS Z420i scanner can map the terrain in 3D up to 1,000 metres away with an accuracy of 10mm. |
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| Laser Scanning Brings New Asset to Accident Investigations—and Surveyors |
| Laser Scanning technology is revolutionizing many aspects of surveying and applied measurement, but it's been especially game changing in the rarified niches of forensics and accident investigation. The main strengths of scanning--speed, safety, accuracy, comprehensiveness, and the ability to return to the same data set and make new observations--serve forensic engineers especially well. |
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| 3d Scanning Safely and Accurately Collects Data in Dangerous Areas |
| Some areas are simply too dangerous or difficult to reach through traditional scanning means. Mines containing dangerous gases deep beneath the earth, highways busy with traffic, bridges and skyscrapers located high above the ground present intimidating challenges to any surveyor both in terms of accessibility and safety risk. |
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| Leica Geosystems Partners with Maptek for Long Range, Mine Scanning Products |
Juergen Dold, president of Leica Geosystems’ geospatial solutions division, states: “Our industry-leading HDS laser scanners and software already effectively address short and mid-range, high-accuracy as-built and topographic survey applications. This agreement with Maptek adds complementary, long-range scanning hardware and mining-specific software solutions for easier, faster and more accurate mine quantity surveys and mine mapping.
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