dfgdfgBy Rus Emerick
Schneider Electric
Over the past eight to nine years, we have watched, and used, various devices to capture wondrous speckled objects known as point clouds. From continuous contact styli on a CMM, tracing row upon row of equally spaced dots, to elementary laser scanners providing hundred of thousands of points reflected back to CCD cameras, resulting in a “close enough” 3D characterization of the scanned object.
