3D Scanning & Point Clouds Research

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Here I will upload my latest developments into Prticle Systems and Point Clouds. Stay TUNED!

13.12.2013 presenting Scanscapes at Bartlett Department of Architecture @ UCL

{Future Scanscapes}

My project is about 3D scanning. A process of recording 3-dimensional data with a level of detail invisible to the naked eye and information impossible to gather by other mapping technologies. With Google tourism acting as many people’s preferred method of urban spatial research I think 3D scanning is likely to be a major tool in the creation of future online versions of our cities and our world – versions within which people spend more and more of their daily lives.

The Scan Data alters our observation of space, time and society. Through scans I have captured in Dubai, Muscat and London I am going to explore 4 different scales that it affects: S,M,L,XL

Dubai souq from above.

During my recent trip to Dubai I was working with Faro 3d Scanner and used it as a tool to map potential sites and their context for my student architectural project, MArch | Bartlett, London. The animation is showing the complex network of corridor like streets at Deira Old Souq, mixed with Islamic Mosques and vernacular Arabic architecture.
Thanks to makers of the Software used:
- Autodesk 3dMax 2014
- Cloud2Max
- Bentley Pointools v8i
- Faro Scene

section through 3D scanned vernacular courtyard house_Dubai Creek

around 300,000 points rendered with RGB and Light Intensity captured by FARO Scanner

_Detail of The Christ Church facade, Lambeth, London

Rendered ScanData point clouds with Blended RGB and Intensity values. In this short teaser I explore an amazing detail and texture that 3d scanner can capture. _The Christ Church, Lambeth, London. More coming soon...

My next step is to animate the point cloud and start morphing it according to some parameters that I can control in SoftImage.

Thanks to ScanLab@ UCL, Bartlett for enabling the 3d scanner!

_watch in HD!