Cast reproduction

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Comment by Jason Wheeler on April 15, 2016 at 12:08pm

What did you use for the photogrammetry version of your face?  123D?

Comment by martyn hogg on April 15, 2016 at 10:32am

Perhaps you need a version of your cast but made from a material that can shrink somehow... perhaps one where you put it on and then wet it to make it shrink to fit?

Comment by Anthony on April 10, 2016 at 7:05pm

I doubt you could get away with simply mirroring anatomy. A friend of mine actually broke her leg a few weeks ago, and we talked about it. Her legs are already visually different just after a few weeks of cruising around on a stroller. Unless you could get a good quality medical scan from a CT or similar machine, I doubt any medical professional would suggest you hack your own casts. (At least not in the litigious USA) I would love to hear from anyone in the medical industry, but would suspect they view such a product as a novelty, not a serious alternative. 

Comment by martyn hogg on April 10, 2016 at 4:58am

That's interesting... the skanect website makes it looks awesome. Maybe great if you just want to 3d print mini-me figures!

What would happen in the case that you actually needed to print a cast for a patient with a broken arm... would you scan the good arm and hope they were symmetrical?

Comment by Anthony on April 9, 2016 at 3:49pm

Yea. But to be honest, its crap.

I had to clean up the mesh significantly, and then adjust areas to match my actual arm's measurements. All this while being left with 1 hand while measuring the other.

Price wise its a no brainer for learning, but I have moved to a new technique for more accurate scans. 

You can seen a Kinect/Skanect facial scan here: https://skfb.ly/LSt9

vs a mesh obtained by photogrammetry here: https://skfb.ly/MOXP 

Both require editing and cleanup, but the latter showed much more detail. 

Comment by martyn hogg on April 9, 2016 at 2:03pm

Was that the Skanect scanning software you used with the Kinect Scanner?

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