Lighting the scanned object (Page 2 of 2)

PLY - Colored Point Cloud
XYZ - Comma Delimited 3D Point Cloud
STL - 3D Triangle Mesh

so can makerbots scanner do all that?

AFAIK the makerbot scanner does not support color or give access to the raw point cloud.

- Uriah

If anyone is interested in lighting levels for a typical LED white lighting strip, I made some illumination measurements the other day.  The maximum current at 12V is about 75mA. 

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ … nteractive

The setup I am using has a light-tight box enclosure to eliminate ambient light.  The inside surfaces are covered in black material plus 1/2" thick layers of black foam to reduce reflections of the lasers (still not 100% successful).
The 11 white LEDS are attached to a printed bar which sits below the camera and spans across to each laser arm, where they are screwed on. This also provides additional mechanical stability for the lasers.  This arrangement provides good uniform frontal illumination of the object, but is not ideal for emphasising small surface detail, as it creates a "flat" colour surface.  The next step will be to add vertical light strips either side of the turntable to create a more oblique lighting angle as an optional light source.

I am currently using freelss v11 which has manual control of lighting level only.  I assume that Atlas3D users with more recent s/ware have some form of closed-loop control of level.