The article explains how an imaging company called Artec Group has recently come out with a 3-D imaging machine for the use of doctors (mostly orthopedics) and for auto companies. They explain that instead of a regular scanner that takes pictures with a laser, this takes pictures digitally on grid system. Since we were discussing digital imaging, I found it interesting how advanced the digitizing process is becoming. The article stated that, "200,000 color pixels every fifteenth of a second. Besides rendering the look of the object, that provides information about shape, since the shading can change with depth". The traditional understanding of color and color coding is becoming changed to a mathematical grid system with each grid being slightly different. With the increasing demand for 3-D, I wouldn't be surprised if something like this really took off, and impacted the traditional form of digitizing.
Article Found @ http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/08/home-3-d-scans-made-cheap/
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