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Vitus Stationary Body Scanner

Suggested Applications: High-Precision Scanning, Full-Body Scanning, Non-Standard Posture Scanning, Colored Texture

Vitus Body Scanner available in Flex Factory Prototype Lab, ZTE
Measurement principleoptical triangulation, infrared eye-safe laser
Number of sensor8 sensors in 4 columns
Typical scan volumeD*W*H: 47.24 in × 43.31 in × 82.68 in
Scan time10 seconds
Typical resolutionapprox. 300 points/cm2
Texturefull color
Accuracywithin 1 mm
Scanner dimensionsD*W*H: 86.61 in × 86.61 in × 116.14 in
Software (Anthroscan) features200 automatically extracted body measurements,
avatar geometries in OBJ, STL, PLY formats

Example of Scan:

Size Stream SS20 Stationary Body Scanner

Suggested Applications: Full-Body Scanning, Standard Standing Posture Scanning, Full-Body Measurement Capturing

Sourced from Size Stream website.
Measurement principleInfrared projection, time-of-flight
Number of sensor20 safe infrared depth sensors
Scan time6 seconds
Typical resolutionapprox. 2 million points per full-body scan
Texturenon-color
Accuracy+/- 5mm
Scanner dimensionsD*W*H:   57 in × 74 in × 80 in
Software features240+ automatically extracted body measurements

Example of Scan:

Structure Sensor (ST01)

Suggested Applications: Handheld Scanning, Partial Body or Object Scanning

Sourced from the structure.io website, illustrating the sensor attached to an iPad device.
Applied to Structure Sensor Model ST01, available from Dr. Minyoung Suh.

MeThreeSixty Remote Scanner

Suggested Applications: Full-Body Measurement Capturing, At-Home Scanning, App/Remote Scanning, Free to Use

The app is free to download and allows basic users to keep up to 5 free scans per account. With just two views captured by a phone or tablet camera, users can obtain key full-body measurements remotely. For a complete list of measurements or to request your virtual model, feel free to contact us at zqiu3@ncsu.edu.

Sourced from the MeThreeSixty iOS app
The figures show a comparison of the same subject scanned using MeThreeSixty (left) and a highly precise stationary body scanner (right).

Anthroscan

Anthroscan is the scan processing software designed for use with the Vitus body scanner, but it also supports external 3D geometric files in standard formats like OBJ for mesh patching, measurement extraction, volume calculation, and further applications.

Sourced from Humanetics Digital. The figures from left to right show a scan file in Anthroscan: (1) processed with auto surface reconstruction, (2) further displayed in color texture, (3) further divided into body segments for volume calculation, and (4) auto body measurement extraction.

CLO

CLO is a 3D apparel CAD software that supports external 3D model files derived from scans, allowing them to be used as ‘scanatars’—virtual human models based on realistic scans—for garment try-on simulations.

The figure illustrates an example of a garment try-on simulation in CLO. From left to right: 1) scanatar input, 2) garment simulated with realistic textures, 3) garment simulated in plain color to highlight structure, 4) garment simulated with a strain map overlay, and 5) garment simulated with a pressure map overlay.

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