Scan initiated¶
Figuring out a software¶
After a bit of Googling, I found this list of “best” 3D scanning app for iOS, and decided to play around with them a bit. In the end, most of them had somewhat difficult payment restrictions, and free versions could not do much. So I decided tu just use Kiri.
Decided to scan an “art” piece that I had assembled from discarded pieces from my previous dodecahedron adventures.
Kiri¶
Downloaded Kiri, and singed in. Tried to start scanning, but it required me to update iOS to a newer version first.
Pressed the big plus button on the bottom of the screen, and started following the instructions. It wanted me to place the object to the center of the screen and at small distance away from it, and then to walk around the object. At first I had placed the object in a position where I could not walk around it easily, so I needed to restart the process.
The Kiri wanted me to walk around the object three times, once at “normal” angle, once from low angle and once from high angle.
iPad is a bit too big for walking around like this. Its heavy, cumbersome and cannot fit into most places. While scanning, I kept hitting the table with it, couldnt go low angle because of its size, and had to readjust my arm position constantly.
The end result was goodish. Of course tha scanner could not detect its bottom parts, but it also had some problems with other holes as well: the small slit in it “antlers” didn’t scan, and scanner added a smallish hole on one of its sides.
I could see this used to scan art pieces and some such things that do not require any precision what-so-ever, but for any mechanical parts that need to move, flex or bear weight, scanning probably is not the correct solution.
And the same object in all its hand drawn glory:
