Turn yourself into a 3D model
Want a 3D scanner but don’t have a small fortune to spare? A new iPhone app turns your face or other object into a 3D computer model that can easily be edited – or even reproduced with a 3D printer. The app, called Trimensional, was created by Grant Schindler, a computer scientist at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. It uses the iPhone’s screen to project four different patterns of light onto the object being scanned and snaps photos with the iPhone 4’s front-mounted camera. The app then analyses every pixel under each lighting pattern and stitches the photos…
