-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: Next Engine laser scanner? Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 11:56:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Dean Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Dan, I recently purchased one for my lab. For objects in the 5-15cm range it works really well. It is quite fast, and with high resolution, just as the company claims. The motorized stage allows multiple views to be scanned, which you can then 'stitch' together for a full 3D image. There are multiple output formats for the data, including raw X,Y,Z coordinates. One would need to do some post-processing to obtain the coordinates of interest (we're still working out this part of the procedure). The only trouble we've had with it is that it does not make good scans of dark, shiny objects. Not a problem for your bones I would imagine, but for scanning salamander heads (my main research organism), we've had to resort to spraying them with Tinactin to take off the shine. Works pretty well, though you obviously lose the color information. Hope this helps. Dean Dean C. Adams Associate Professor Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology, and Department of Statistics 253 Bessey Hall Iowa State University Ames, IA 50011 tel: (515) 294-3834 fax: (515) 294-1337 web: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~dcadams At 01:25 PM 3/24/2008, you wrote:
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Next Engine laser scanner? Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 10:50:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Daniel Proctor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Hello, I just heard about a small portable laser scanner called Next Engine. https://www.nextengine.com/indexSecure.htm I'm writing to see if anyone has experience with this equipment, and if so, whether the results are satisfactory? I'm interested in using it to scan small bones for later analysis with the program "Landmark" from the NYCEP group. Best, Dan Proctor [EMAIL PROTECTED] ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs -- Replies will be sent to the list. For more information visit http://www.morphometrics.org
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