User:Alange6373/ENES-100/project 2 3D Scanner

Week0 Preferences
I was assigned to the 3D scanner group. This week consisted of assigning the background jobs to get everything running. I took the laser home and spent the weekend attempting to get the laser to work when plugged into a normal outlet. I also took a look into the software behind the 3D scanner online. It looks like the software scans based off of the beam of the laser compared to the flat surface at the top of the image.

Week1
This week I spent working with previous scans that I had taken last project trying to clean them up. Still haven't gotten any where with that yet. My hope was to be able to use previous scans but the scans were to far gone. Thursday was very promising. In class I retook previous scans in order to help document them but it ended up helping more than anything else. I scanned a Ferris wheel multiple times. I hoped to print it in class but the 3D printer broke so I can't show yoau a before and after.
 * I scanned a twirly green decoration.
 * I imported it into meshlab.
 * I edited it with blender deleting all the stay points
 * Then Imported into Meshlab and created a file to be printed.

Week2
This week was spent testing the current configurations for the set up for the scanner. Taking multiple scans of one object we changed the backgrounds to test to see whether the contrast of the background would change the cleanliness of the scanned object.

Week3
This week was spent with two objectives.

1) set up a for the seminar

2)Get multiple scans of the same object from different sides to create a full scan/object

The presentation was a simple set up that works great the presentation should go as planned. I had trouble getting scans this time around Our group was able to get good scans before but now the scans are not turning out. I maintained the same settings the only possible difference I can see is possibly the lighting in the room.