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Digitize Yourself With the 3D Copypod

This should be FUN … get yourself digitized!!

Copying yourself digitally is not easy. Ideally, you want multiple photos taken from every angle at the same moment with all-around, soft illumination. A company called People’s Industrial Design Office in Beijing, China has created something called the 3D Copypod that can do all that for you in one neat package. It’s based on the “Hoberman sphere,” a type of geodesic dome that can fold down to a much smaller size thanks to its scissor-like joints.

“Objects are surrounded by a spherical array of over one hundred fixed focal length DSLR cameras,” the architectural and design firm explains. “With minimal adjustment, the 3D Copypod can contract to scan small objects and expand large enough to scan a group of people.” Furthermore, the folding panels are lit from the inside “to ensure a shadowless photography environment.”

The 3D Copypod allows users to construct digital models using the photo data, which can be used to make high resolution 3D prints, the company says. People’s Industrial didn’t specify what kind of software it used to stitch the photos and convert them to a model, but given the number of cameras, it should be able to produce very accurate and high-res results.

Source: People’s Architecture via Engadget

 

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