Subject: 3D DIGITIZER: questions for Impulse
Date: Mon, 16 May 94 19:46:29 EDT
From: "Steve J. Lombardi" <stlombo@eos.acm.rpi.edu>

Got my impulse newsletter today. they mention that their 3D digitizer will
be out in mid june. A rendering of the unit appears in the issue.  
Price is 995 with a special for current imagine users of 500 bucks.
Some questions for Impulse:

1. What is the Max weight of an Item that can be placed in the unit?

2. Does the software automatically skin the object after points are
scanned or is this a manual process? Adding the faces manually could
be a nightmare for a complex object.

3. for a small object, like the car seen on the unit in the photo,
what is the total time (scanning and skinning) that it would take to
complete an object at a reasonable level of detail ?

4. What is the scanning process like? Do you slide that doohickey along the 
track and bend the arm in to meet the object and then 'grab' a point with 
the software?? 

I'm quite curious about this device and look forward to your answers. i've
shopped around for such a device and haven't found ANYTHING to compare
at this price. I think it can potentially be to 3D what Newtek's Digiview
was to 2D way back before anyone even CONSIDERED color scanning on a 
home computer users budget!!

--
steve lombardi
stlombo@acm.rpi.edu


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