3D Scan ANYTHING! - HOLY S#!T
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2019-05-06
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1,691 words · ~8 min read
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it's amazing when you take a moment to look around how much technology is all
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around us I mean they're building Quantum Computing chips two
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municipalities away in Burnaby and down
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the street from our office seriously it's so close that we could hit it with
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a potato cannon Excelsior measuring has
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got a thirty thousand dollar laser
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scanner that they've invited us to go take a look at so uh
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we're walking there it's a crazy cool piece of kit that allows you to turn
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foreign so this place is actually pretty cool the owner Daniel has been a long
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time viewer they've got a gigantic floor mat when you walk in that's like
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Excelsior and everyone from their
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bookkeeper all the way up to the folks working on 3D modeling or graphic design
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or using custom hand-built workstations so it's a pretty cool vibe in this place
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anyway this is the BLK
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360. wow and I've been asked very nicely
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by the owner here not to drop it I see
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my reputation has preceded me somewhat but don't worry don't worry I'm I'm
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experienced at this sort of thing what does this cost to get 30 grand anyway so
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this puppy right here will do three
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separate types of skins all simultaneously it does photo it does 3D
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with what's called a a point cloud or
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something along those lines and this little sticker right here that I guess
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Fleer probably Twisted leica's ARM to include on it it also does thermal
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scanning at the same time so it'll
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actually record depending on the quality of the scan that you're going for
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anywhere from a hundred thousand to 360
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000 data points per second as it Spurs
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around and spins around whether it's a room or or outdoor or whatever it is
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that you're trying to scan in terms of of accessories I don't often get to
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unbox things that cost this much you get a car adapter
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so you on your way to a site you know if you're driving up to Kamloops or
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something you can have it charging up you get uh a battery
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you get a wall charger with
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International adapters and finally
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a battery charger
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for the wall charger so you can charge
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the batteries wow okay give me a second I gotta get all this stuff out of the
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way all right so uh let's take a bit of
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a closer look here oh
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all right there we go
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so that's it that's all there is to it it's got like
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a blasted aluminum housing it's got uh
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oh I guess I'm gonna need that battery there we go it's got a battery
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compartment at the back
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look at that smooth action on the door that that is what thirty thousand
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dollars buys you and then you got your power button on the front and man
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there's not a lot to it so here on the back they've got three 15 megapixel
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cameras and what those do is they take the photographic image of the site so
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they will actually create a 150 megapixel Dome around the location
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where the camera is set up so the doodad in the middle is going to spin around
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like this and then the whole unit is going to spin around 360 degrees and
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it's going to basically measure the distance between the BLK 360 and all the
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objects surrounded as as Point data and then that will all have to be assembled
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after the fact now it can hold something to the tune of a hundred scans on its
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built-in memory and the accuracy of this so out to about 60 meters is within four
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millimeters so there are quite a few applications of this technology but what
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Excelsior measuring does with it is they get scans of the outsides of buildings
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because a lot of the time if you want to uh let's say put an addition on a house
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or if you want to change something about a commercial construction project what
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you have to do is you have to submit to the city and as built measurement of the
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building it's not good enough to send blueprints because they might not have
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been adhered to perfectly so in the old days you would have to take like a like
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a pocket laser range finder and just
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kind of sort of math everything based on angles
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this you just plunk it down in the parking lot
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press run and it gets you all of the
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measurements to within that four millimeter accuracy I was talking about and it can actually even run out in sort
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of a light mist it's ip54 rated now it's
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not perfect it doesn't handle or this model anyway doesn't handle things like
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the inside of a k very well so for mining applications they've got a more
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powerful model because it doesn't handle like blacks or or dark blues or
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reflective surfaces but for their application it has proven to be very
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very useful but enough talking about it
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they've actually agreed to let us borrow it so we're going to take this back to
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our office and get a 3D scan of the Linus Media Group building okay so here
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we are in our set we're actually running a scan right now we're probably going to
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have to discard this one because it's going to have my face in it but don't don't worry too much about that
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basically what it's going to take is about six placements here in our our
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apartment set slash studio for us to
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build such an accurate digital representation of it that anyone who had
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the file could go and create a real life
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Recreation of this studio like that
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I mean it's construction so there's like permits and stuff but but like like a
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slow okay so now we're running the last scan
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and then what we're gonna do is we're gonna send all of this point cloud data
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back with Daniel to his company they're gonna process it and we're gonna go
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check out the results tomorrow okay so
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normally they have a week to do this kind of stuff so we're gonna go a little
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bit easy on them but we are back in the office and Daniel's got a 3D scan of our
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studio that we can actually just what like fly through whoa
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holy crap
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so this you guys is the bedroom set it
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goes all the way up to the ceiling too okay so Daniel's company uses this
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primarily for measuring like uh surveying a construction project as we
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mentioned before but this Tech has actually been known to be used in the
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production industry as well so what they could do is they could take a space or
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in our case a set or a location and then
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they could import this information because this is all just just just like
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a point Cloud they can take all this information and they can create a model
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in 3ds Max or Maya and then what they
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could actually do is they could build up a set including lighting locations and
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see once they've rendered it out using obviously quite powerful Hardware
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what exactly it would look like in real
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life so it's super cool stuff that these guys are doing here at Excelsior
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measuring they're not like a sponsor for the video or anything they're just a
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local company that was literally down the street that had a fun toy to play
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with that ended up being actually even
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cooler than I expected so hopefully you
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