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Microsoft Research and Oxford University are showing off a chunk of software that turns smartphones into 3D scanners – running fast enough that if it's released, it'll be handy for 3D printing enthusiasts. To be published in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, the six-degrees-of-freedom (6DoF) scanning …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
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    Does that software already exist for desktops to process video files from a decent camera?

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  2. Graham Marsden
    Holmes

    "the lost art of efficient programming"

    But when we've got all this memory and fast processors, *why* should we have to bother writing efficient code...?

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    1. Wommit
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      Re: "the lost art of efficient programming"

      "But when we've got all this memory and fast processors, *why* should we have to bother writing efficient code...?"

      Ask the people who coded Elite into the 32KB of a BBC micro.

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  3. DropBear

    Proper boffinry

    See title...

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  4. druck Silver badge
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    Snap your idols quick

    Just the thing for a last minute scan of priceless ancient artefacts before being overrun by idol destroying IS nut-cases.

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  5. Justin Clift

    Hopefully they Open Source the software

    This sounds like it would be useful software to look through and adapt into other scenarios. eg using a webcam attached to (fast GPU) computer, it might be possible to create some pretty accurate 3d models of things at hand, body parts, etc. :)

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      Re: Hopefully they Open Source the software

      " it might be possible to create some pretty accurate 3d models of things at hand, BODY PARTS, etc."

      Fnar fnar!

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  6. Steve 129

    Didn't Autodesk do this years ago !!??

    http://www.123dapp.com/catch

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    1. pyrrhic-loss
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      Re: Didn't Autodesk do this years ago !!??

      I came here to say that :)

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