Scanning with the kinect
Here are some scans done with the kinect using Artec Studio 9.1 running on
Windows 7 on an older Macbook air. These experiments were done for a
talk (see
Slides PDF, 80 Meg).
Thanks to Anna Zevelyov, Director of Business Development at
the Artec group company, for providing us with an educational evaluation licence
of Artec Studio 9.1 which allowed us to make these experiments.
Click on the picture to see the picture larger:


Here are photos of the real chair and the real bust.
Click on the picture to see it larger:

During a talk in Boston
(
outline [PDF],
slides [PDF])
the kinect was used for a couple of seconds to scan the first two members of the
audience. Here is how the STL file looks like in meshlab: