The fruit of the 4 elements

This project has won the first prize hands down. At the end of the official projection, Creaform’s employees gave the winning team a standing ovation that last for several minutes.

“Never in my wildest dreams have I imagined that such things could be possible with a laser scanner.”
_Charles Mony, president of Creaform

Technical details:

1 REVscan laser scanner
Scanning: 20h
Post-treatment: + 350h
9,8M triangles

Challenges to overcome:

The main challenge was the complexity of the object to scan. The shapes were very “organic” and hardly compatible with the conventional data treatment process. One of the major task was to align the 90 partial scans forming the trunk and the branches of the tree. This complexity also impacted the volume of the resulting file. In order to open the file on the existing computer resources, it had to be greatly decimated, since the raw model presented 50 millions triangles and would have been too heavy to open. Once assembled, the final model was still quite heavy to handle. The shots in the video were created following the “stop-motion” technique, one image at a time.

The Handyscan 3D technological edge

Such a project required a device offering great flexibility, in order to scan each element individually. Each leaf has been scanned on both sides, creating a watertight model.

The power of the VxScan software made it possible to complete this complex project by allowing the repositioning of the 90 partial scans made of the trunk, the branches, the leaves, the young girl and the apple basket that she is holding.

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