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3D Scanning Bureau Added Special Effects Shots in Life of Pi Movie

Life of Pi 3D ScanningR&H i.e. Rhythm and Hues is one of the largest and world-famous visual effects studio companies of the film industry. This time, R&H visual effects studio has completed most of its VFX shots featured in one of the 3D adventurous drama films named Life of Pi. This studio has hired the service of 3D Scanning bureau of Taiwan named LeaderTek. In this way, R&H studio has availed the benefits of the power of 3dimensional data capture for making different types and amazing special effects in the movies.

Direction of the Movie ‘Life of Pi’

Ang Lee, winner of the Academy Award is responsible for directing the movie of Life of Pi. The entire movie has drawn upon big team of renowned artists spanning the offices of R&H in approximately six different places of the world. These include India, Los Angeles, Taiwan, Vancouver and Kuala Lampur. R&H studio has taken the responsibility of covering more than hundreds of shots of visual effects to be presented in 3dimensional stereo.

Special Effects Shots in the Movie

Some of the special effects shots may include digitally recreated skies and water, Bengal tiger, floating raft, lifeboat, Meerkat Island, digitally created skies and water and several other additional features. LeaderTek used 3D laser scanner of FARO Focus for digitally capturing the floating raft and lifeboat.

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3D Scanning Increases Oil Rig Safety

CromartyOilPlatformWorking on an oil rig is a job that constantly places your wellbeing in danger. Fires happen often and people tend to get injured. Accidents happen all the time and they can result in the loss of a limb or even death. Safety is obviously a priority but it’s hard to ramp up safety efforts more than they already are.

One thing that hasn’t been accounted for is the weight of the crew. Since the 1980s, workers on oil rigs have increased 19{ed34752d3d9237811f2899a265685e36705e4e86722207f201c96dd1cfc4a167} in weight from 11 stone to 14 stone. This puts evacuation strategies at risk. Everything from gear, to life rafts, to how much weight helicopters can hold are on the line here.

That’s why 3D scanning is so essential to safety improvements. It makes it possible to collect data about employees on offshore oil rigs. This way, new emergency procedures and regulations can be put into place to meet these new specifications. The changes made will compensate for the fact that people weigh more now than they used to.

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EMS Uses 3D Scanning on Land Assault Vehicles

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There doesn’t seem to be much technology can’t accomplish. It’s really quite amazing. Recently, the US Marine Corps contracted with EMS to use 3D scanning technology to capture data about the Land Assault Vehicle or LAV. Five LAV’s in all were scanned to create CAD models of these vehicles.

The US Marine Corps initially approached EMS because they needed 3D models of their LAVs. These models were going to be used to develop simulation software and training programs. Initially, they were going to measure the LAVs themselves and make the CAD models from scratch. However, it was determined that this would be way too time-consuming and wouldn’t produce a quality final result. That’s when 3D scanning was brought on board.

EMS went out to the California desert and scanned five different versions of the LAV. They used both the Konica Minolta and Z-Corps 3D scanning systems to accomplish this task. They scanned both the interior and exterior of all the different LAV models. This allows them to get into every little nook and cranny of the vehicles. This would’ve been much too difficult to measure by hand and to reproduce by hand and import into modeling software. Once the scanning was complete, both the interior and exterior scans were combined to create a full 3D model.

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3D Scanning Allows for Real Time Model Making

Konica Minolta Vivid 9i guitar 3D ScanningIf you’re thinking about the possibilities of model making, you need to familiarize yourself with 3D scanning. This technology can make a wide variety of things possible that otherwise wouldn’t be. You can literally scan anything in the world and get a three-dimensional digital model as a result. It only takes minutes and it’s the perfect way to create digital models for a wide variety of purposes.

What can this technology accomplish? Just about anything. Here are a few examples.

You can scan in parts of a product to compare it to the manufacturer parts as described in a CAD model. You can reverse engineer items by scanning them in, making a digital model, then manufacturing them. You can scan buildings to create 3D models from them. You can even make CAD models of objects to make changes to designs or updates to products.

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RapidForm XOR Uses 3D Scanning for Aerodynamic Design

RapidForm XOR Uses 3D Scanning-1When it comes to improving aerodynamic design, one of the choice methods has always been the use of a wind tunnel. However, designers can now utilize something brand-new to build aerodynamic aircraft digitally. By employing 3D scanning, designers can create aerodynamic designs for a variety of design devices. This technique is called computational fluid dynamics for CFD. It’s currently being used by the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern. Their latest tests combine wind tunnels, field tests, and CFD for a more accurate and innovative approach.

Accuracy, as you can imagine, it is very important for success here, which is why they are using Rapidform XOR for their 3D scanning needs. The system allows the engineers to build on current designs and improve them using a CFD simulation and then building on top of that with the Rapidform XOR mesh data accumulated from the scanning process. It actually has something called a Mesh Buildup Wizard that allows you to create a water tight mesh in an instant by using several different scans that can be merged together. The results are high-quality, accurate, and highly useful.

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