P3D Re: one more use of stereo

[Brian Reynolds <reynolds@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dan Vint wrote:
> 
> Pretty cool idea for doing rapid prototypes of parts and castings. Now this
> was truely 3D printing because is gave me an object I could hold in m hands
> and look at from any angle. 
> 

The amazing thing is that for just under $2000 you can buy the Picza
(a 3D digitizer that works by scanning a needle across the surface of
the object being digitized) and the Modela (a 3D plotter that works by
carving a block of modeler's wax (or other suitable material) in a
similar scanning fashion) from Roland.  That's not $2000 each, that
$2000 for the pair.

After SIGGRAPH '98 I was really trying hard to come up with a reason
to buy these (besides "Wow! That's cool!").

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