(506) 2240-6804
Mephisto 3d scanner
3DDynamics to bundle Rapidform software with the Mephisto white-light 3D scanner
Seoul, South Korea - May 27, 2010, INUS Technology, Inc. (www.rapidform.com) is pleased to announce that Mephisto 3D scanner from 3DDynamics (www.3DDynamics.eu) now includes a license of Rapidform XOS. This powerful combination of hardware and software allows users to capture process and edit 3D scans for a variety of purposes, including 3D copying, face and body capture for computer graphics, digital archiving, heritage preservation, research and more.
The Mephisto scanner from 3DDynamics offers highly flexible solutions for capturing small to large objects; even humans. Using structured white-light technology and high quality consumer hardware, it is fast, accurate, and cost effective. Rapidform XOS processes the data created by the Mephisto scanner, giving users the power to measure and view the object, export high quality meshes (as STL, OBJ, etc.), and even create lightweight NURBS surface models automatically. XOS's Mesh Buildup Wizard makes the process of optimizing, aligning and combining the scans a simple 10 minute process.
Together, these products allow companies to speed up product development and cut down total work time. Aivaras Grauzinis, CTO of 3DDynamics said "Rapidform's registration and integration is supreme in our industry. Therefore we believe that by including XOS with our Mephisto 3D scanner, our users have all the tools needed for post processing 3D scan data into high quality models with ease." Dr. Calvin Hur, Senior Vice President of INUS Technology sets high expectations on the new partnership with 3DDynamics. He notes that "the partnership with 3DDynamics is truly a winning combination. The Mephisto scanner offers a great price/performance ratio, as does Rapidform XOS. This new hardware + software solution is one of the best deals in the market today. Anyone looking for a cost-effective, high performance 3D scanning system needs to consider this package."
About 3D Dynamics 3DDynamics, based in Belgium, specialises in providing software and hardware solutions based on structured light technology.
With more than ten years of experience in the scanning industry, 3DDynamics currently offers several specialised scanning solutions such as the Mephisto family of 3D scanning systems. The company's 3Dscanners can be used for applications including medical research and preservation, automotive and aviation, architecture and heritage, model and jewellery making, as well as reverse engineering and human body capture for the film and entertainment Industry. For more information about 3DDynamics or their 3D scanning technology, please visit www.3DDynamics.eu or contact [email protected].
About INUS Technology Inc. INUS Technology helps companies unlock the power of 3D scanning. The company's software solutions are the most widely installed products for reverse engineering, 3D imaging and inspection using 3D scan data around the globe. Rapidform makes 3D scanning an extremely powerful tool for a variety of applications and is used in fields such as manufacturing, R&D, quality inspection, medical research and civil engineering.
Leading companies including Audi, Ford, Hyundai, Toyota, Rolls Royce, Volkswagen, Hitachi, Panasonic, Oakley, Samsung, Sony, Alcoa, and Benteler use Rapidform's advanced technology to innovate throughout their research, design, manufacturing and quality control processes. For more information, please visit http://www.rapidform.com
3D scanning helps solve World War I mystery
- Postedby Griffith Sciences
- Posted in Engineering
- 2 minute read
- 0 Comments
Griffith PhD candidate Chris Little will use advanced 3D scanning to help solve one of World War I’s great mysteries.
What happened to the German tank known as Mephisto has been scrutinised for almost 100 years, but Mr Little believes his research may help put an end to the speculation and take the public inside the tank for the first time.
Mephisto was immobilised in the area close to Villers-Bretonneux called Monument Wood in France when it became stuck in a shell crater.
Griffith School of Engineering PhD candidate Chris Little will use 3D scanning to solve the mysteries around WWI German tank known as Mephisto.The Germans were unable to recover Mephisto so it remained stranded until July 1918 when Australian troops of the 26th Battalion AIF, which was composed mainly of Queenslanders, eventually regained the lost ground and pushed the Allied front line past Mephisto’s position.
As a result the battalion’s commander ordered the capture of Mephisto and it was sent to Australia as a war trophy. It is the sole surviving A7V tank in the world.
Mr Little said many people have a memory of Mephisto from seeing it at the Queensland Museum, however few have experienced the tank from the inside.
“I’m wanting to bring a sense of excitement into the experience of the tank by allowing them to get up close and personal with it,” he said.
“Mephisto is a very special tank, it is captivating; the mysteries around it, seeing the Queensland troops around it before they brought it back to Australia and hearing stories from people who have been involved with the tank.
“This is an opportunity to give people’s memories of it even more meaning.”
Mr Little’s research uses 3D scanning to create a complete and accurate data set of Mephisto, developing an interactive virtual display of it and finally moving the tank back into its original position in Villers-Bretonneux using advanced forensic software and GPS technology to create a ballistic analysis.
Griffith PhD candidate Chris Little will use advanced 3D scanning to help solve one of World War I’s great mysteries. What happened to the German tank known as Mephisto has been scrutinised for almost 100 years, but Mr Little believes his research may help put an end to the speculation and take the public inside the tank for the first time.
He will present this research project titled, ‘Last Days of Mephisto – Forensic and Ballistic Science’ at the inaugural World Science Festival Brisbane on March 10 as one of the feature presenters.
Mr Little has 15 years experience in 3D scanning in particular with forensic crime scenes and heritage preservation.
Griffith University is an academic partner of the World Science Festival Brisbane. Queensland Museum will host the Festival in Brisbane from March 9 to 13.
The inaugural festival will take science out of the laboratory and into the streets, parks, museums, galleries and premier performing arts venues of Brisbane’s Cultural Precinct in South Banks.
A range of Griffith’s experts will join international leaders from across science and the arts for four action-packed days of public science at its best.
Find out more about Griffith’s involvement in the Festival.
Read More: Griffith School of Engineering
3D model of the Mephistopheles high relief, which was destroyed by vandals in 2015, will be created by St.
Petersburg specialists // Look -
Profile
-
Favorites
- nine0004
-
3D model of the Mephistopheles high relief, which was destroyed by vandals in 2015, will be created by St.
Petersburg specialists nine0003
Will the sculpture return to its historical place?
100 years ago, during the time of the architect Alexander Lishnevsky, these technologies would definitely have been attributed to the tricks of evil spirits. The iron-sized device frequently pulses with white light, and Mephistopheles' sarcastic grin appears on the laptop screen. Separate from everything else. The 3D scanner dispassionately transfers the fragments of the historical gorelf from Lakhtinskaya Street to the virtual studio. nine0007
Maxim Filippovich, director of the expert organization: "The technology is that it is such an optical net, but very small. Let's imagine it is like a fishing net, but with a microscopic cell.
It is thrown over - this scanner works in this way - it is thrown over the surface envelops it and translates it into the program. Plus, there is simultaneous photography with two cameras, very, very often, there is continuous photography of the object. "
Judgment day for Mephistopheles came in 2015. A climber appeared on the richly decorated facade of an old house. A few blows with a crowbar and a hammer - and the stucco demon flew down to the asphalt, where it broke into many fragments. The next six years, the wreckage spent in the police station - served as material evidence in a criminal case. In February of this year, the injured Mephistopheles was transferred to the St. Petersburg branch of the All-Russian Society for the Protection of Monuments. nine0007
Elena Kononenko, curator of the exhibition "History of the movement in defense of St. Petersburg": "Most of the fragments that we see here are fragments of hands, we will definitely not see the fingers - the fingers are completely lost, but the shoulders and elbows can somehow be restored" .
The method was proposed by specialists in three-dimensional technologies. Each surviving fragment will have to be scanned, and the technique allows not only to make a digital three-dimensional copy of the object - the scanner also captures all the features of color and texture. Then the broken figure will be reassembled in the virtual space. The computer will help to understand which fragment is from where. nine0007
Anton Ivanov, Deputy Chairman of the St. Petersburg branch of the VOOPiK: "With this modeling, the dimensions and the author's plasticity of this bas-relief will be repeated as accurately as possible, so this will be the most accurate repetition of this work."
When the computer puts all the disparate parts together, it will become clear what exactly is lost forever. And only this technology will restore everything, as experts say.
When everything is finished, the high relief can be printed on a 3D printer in 1:1 scale. Most likely, this copy will be placed on the facade of Lishnevsky's house.
The lost original will not be restored - it is almost impossible. After a thorough 3D scanning, the fragments of the smiling demon will be transferred to the museum of the Boris Piotrovsky Center for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage. nine0007
- culture
- news
- culture News nine0003 News of the TV channel "Culture"
All broadcast
In St.
Petersburg, work began on the creation of a 3D model of "Mephistopheles" - Yana Grigorieva
- Society
It will help restorers to restore the work of Alexander Lishnevsky, which was previously knocked down from the facade of one of the houses in the Petrogradsky district
Photo: Roman Pimenov/Petersburg Diary
The day before, in the St. Petersburg branch of the All-Russian Society for the Protection of Historical and Cultural Monuments (VOOPIiK), specialists began work on a 3D model of the work.
Recall that an architectural and artistic element was knocked down from the facade of a residential building at 24 Lakhtinskaya Street in August 2015. At the end of 2021, the great-great-granddaughter of Alexander Lishnevsky, the architect of the project of the memorial house at 24 Lakhtinskaya Street, Elena Turkovskaya asked for assistance in preserving the historically and artistically important fragments of the facade of the house in the form of a high relief "Mephistopheles" within the walls of the St.
Petersburg Center for Cultural Heritage named after Academician B. B. Piotrovsky , and not in the evidence chamber of the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. nine0007
VOOPIIK met her halfway and agreed to accept the fragments, having previously received consent to transfer from the Committee for State Control, Use and Protection of Historical and Cultural Monuments (KGIOP).
At the beginning of February, the police officers handed over four bags and one box with fragments of the Mephistopheles high relief to the VOOPiK. In the future, the fragments will be placed within the walls of the new Center at the public organization, which opened in November 2021.
Missing elements
While the elements are in the department of the organization. Here, yesterday, work began on creating a 3D model of Mephistopheles.
“It can help restorers in the process of future reconstruction of the high relief. For the time being, we are deciding how best to arrange an exposition with preserved fragments of the work at the Academician B.
B. Piotrovsky Cultural Heritage Center on Zakharyevskaya Street. The Union of Experts North-West company is helping to create a 3D model. Using modern equipment, the elements of the work are scanned, which will subsequently be “collected” together. Thus, the model itself will be created,” said Anton Ivanov, Deputy Chairman of the Council of the St. Petersburg branch of VOOPIIK. nine0085
Photo: Roman Pimenov/Petersburg Diary
What is the technology itself? “When the scanner is aimed at a fragment, the optical grid literally “envelops” the object, the received information is transmitted to a computer, where its model is created using a special program. At the same time, two cameras built into the scanner continuously photograph the object, thus fixing the texture. As a result, we already see the result of the scan, that is, a 3D model of each fragment, from which the work is subsequently assembled, ”says Maxim Filipovich, director and founder of the Union of Experts of the North-West company.
nine0007
How long it will take to scan and "assembly" all the fragments of the work, experts still find it difficult to answer.
“We have yet to decide what we will do with the missing fragments of the high relief. There are two options: either we make a model of the elements on a computer, based on historical photographs. Or we “glue” the whole model and print it on a 3D printer with the lost elements, and the restorers will be able to “make” the missing elements from the material directly during the work on the object,” said Maxim Filipovich. nine0085
Photo: Roman Pimenov/Petersburg Diary
Create a database
According to the expert, the method of scanning objects will allow preserving many historical and cultural monuments, including houses.
“I often voice a proposal at various conferences to scan the facades of buildings both at the stage of developing a restoration project and after it, thereby fixing the object in good condition.
