If you look at the wires behind your entertainment console, you’re going to see different colors tangled up with different things leading to different places you forgot existed. It’s an awful ugly mess. Seeing the brain is like that, only the opposite because in its chaos is beauty. Just look at the 3D brain scan above that shows every synapse, it’s like a 3D Jackson Pollock painting.
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3D print studio “Shinsaibashi D Sta”, which Roice Entertaiment runs, has started offering an interesting service with 3D scanning/printing technology – They scan full-length figure of a client using a 3D scanner and produce an original 3D figure doll that looks very much like the client.
A basic 15cm-tall figure doll plan is ¥42,000. There are other several plans such as “Wedding Course” that includes 2 figure dolls of a bridal couple (¥58,000 or more) and “Cosplay Course” (¥37,000).
According to Roice Entertainment, they need only 2 minutes to scan a client while other companies in Japan that offer the same kind of service need about 15 minutes for the scanning process.
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The Smithsonian has been experimenting with 3D scanning for some time now, using tools like laser arm scanners to map models of whale fossils and other ancient artifacts. Now the museum is utilizing the technology to preserve its collection for posterity. Its “laser cowboys” Vince Rossi and Adam Metallo are working full-time to record items for future generations, as part of an extensive effort to digitize 14 million prioritized objects (a list that also includes artwork and lab specimen). After the break, check out a video of the team working to preserve a digital copy of the Philadelphia gunboat, America’s oldest fighting vessel.
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