Simple Example of a Turntable Scan

3D Model

This is a quick example to show a simple method for scanning bones. I didn’t have any bones around, so I grabbed this thing instead. A little bust of a character I made for fun years ago.

A single loop of 25 images shot with a 50mm lens on my Canon Rebel. Was lazy with focusing and only bothered to focus on the chest area. Shoulders were the most out of focus part of the bust, and I think that’s why they’re also the noisiest. With more careful focusing, cleaner results can be had.

Camera was at 1/15th shutter, F/13.0 and 800 ISO.

Generated in MetaShape at “High” quality. I decided to just generate from depth maps and skipped creating a dense point cloud.

Look at the edges of the subject which I didn’t shoot, and how the mesh was extrapolated from these areas. Kind of an interesting effect if you flip it over and look at the bottom. With full coverage (or using the dense point cloud to generate a mesh instead), you can avoid this.