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17.08.2009 21:24:08

deri

Holly Lodge School, Smethwick, Birmingham, UK.

At short notice, we were asked to supply a basic model of an entire school campus to act as the starting point for some animation and visualisation images for a re-modelling exercise. Tasked with the project on Thursday afternoon, we completed the bulk of the 3D laser scanning over the weekend, to avoid interrupting classes and minimising health and safety issues. Some 38,000m² of site was covered, using the longer range Trimble to pick off larger facades and working with the faster Faro scanner to pick up the more complex areas.

This was processed using Pointools / Rhino, creating accurate geometry and then applying orthographic texture maps in Maya. This model was supplied to the clients some 5 days after being given the project (no, we didn't sleep much!). We also supplied a full photographic survey used to map on to our orthographic roughs to add greater detail to the model for rendering.

The video we created from the pointcloud and the base model is here.. and the PDF is here..

Architecture | visualisation | Animation | 3D Laser scanning

15.08.2009 10:20:13

deri

This animation shows some of the data we collected on a local project. As it is off the beaten track and was accessible only by foot or tractor (see below!) it's a great place to try out new kit and minimise the amount of equipment needed to do a scan job.

The cottage is now undergoing renovation - once it's completed, we'll go back and scan it again to give a comparison.

The video is here...

Heritage | visualisation | Pointools | Animation | 3D Laser scanning

14.08.2009 22:52:54

deri

That's the first of the YouTube videos up - it's some animations through the pointclouds we collected over a couple of days at Drax power station in Yorkshire on behalf of Alstom Power. All of this data was captured with the Faro LS880, working off the crane beams and topsides of the structure over a period of 2 days. The scans were tied together using a Total station and a set of spherical targets. Even with downsampling, the full data set in Pointools comes to some 550 million point, so not all of it is displayed in the video.

Video is here....

The PDF user story to go with this is here..

visualisation | Industrial | Pointools | 3D Laser scanning