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<\/a><\/p>\nA previous article reported a first experiment with XTion and Scanect. At that time, 2 years ago, results were average in terms of quality, usage and stability. (see here)<\/p>\n
The new 2015 version (1.8) of the software (http:\/\/skanect.occipital.com\/<\/a>) brings much more confort and good results.<\/p>\n New options help to get a better recording session:<\/p>\n One of the big change is the control on the bounding box. It can be extend to 12x12x12m. For better results, it\u2019s recommanded to set a wider bounding box to capture everything. Problem, by increasing the range, one may loose details. The best is to put the sensor\u00a0 horizontally before starting to scan.<\/p>\n The recording is much more stable. The acquisition is faster and if it\u2019s still important to have a very regular move, it does not cut as it did before. It\u2019s possible to restart from a given point and carry on scanning. A more brighter situation can be handdled.<\/p>\n Reconstruction is now pretty fast. Before, it was a real issue when on site, sometimes far from electricity supplies. It took hours to rebuild the model draining the power of the computeur. It\u2019s now almost in real time.<\/p>\n The process part is also improved. New options allow a better control on the model such as removing small components, filling holes and colorizing the mesh.<\/p>\n The sharing options enable to save and export the model. Several qualities are offered. It\u2019s also possible to upload to Sketchfab when enterring the API number.<\/p>\n The example above perfectly fits to Skanect. It is dark, it has a lot of details, it\u2019s very bumpy. For a room, that\u2019s not exactly the same story.<\/p>\n It\u2019s very important to prepare the scanning path. It\u2019s has to be along an imaginary spline as fluid as possible. A bad path can occur this kind of results :<\/p>\n Sad but funny !<\/p>\n There, the Senser has been put on the table before starting, results are better, despite a lot of specular reflexions and metallic surfaces.<\/p>\n There are a lot of details in this scene, the resolution is not enough to capture everything. It looks a bit melty, but it could be a wonderfull layout to rebuild in 3D.<\/p>\n This is a test for an object.<\/p>\n Much better.<\/p>\n For $129\/99\u20ac only, Skanect is a very nice solution for very narrow, dark and unconfortable places to scan. I\u2019ve tried it in caves where I had to crawl to go through very narrow paths, it was there perfect.<\/p>\n I imagine that with a new generation of sensor, it would be even better.<\/p>\n The Kitchen<\/p>\nPrepare<\/h4>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nReconstruction<\/h4>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nShare<\/h4>\n
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Visualization in Meshlab<\/h4>\n
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