Now THIS is how you repurpose data
There’s often talk in the industry about how useful lidar data can be. Sure, you…
Author Sam Pfeifle
Desktop scanners: All the rage
While 3D printers have been getting much of the attention from start-ups using Kickstarter, don’t…
Uh oh. Laser scanning might be cool now…
You guys know what “bling” is? I’m guessing so. It’s all that jewelry and nonsense…
At least one place where photogrammetry is replacing lidar
There’s been a great deal of interest in how the newest photogrammetry software, creating point…
That presidential mention of 3D printing
You all heard it, right? Here’s what U.S. President Obama said in his State of…
And the Sandy help happens
I’m not one to tell you “I told you so,” so I’ll just say I’m…
Laser scanning in the snow?
Okay, actually, I didn’t see anyone trying to laser scan in the snow, but it’s…
Those Hot Springs kids need our help
You’ll remember my story from a couple weeks back about the kids at Hot Springs…
Two more Kickstarter projects you need to know about
Yes, start-ups do still get funding the old-fashioned way (begging is popular, I think), but…
The buzz about a new historic preservation effort
There are no doubt plenty of altruistic reasons for scanning and documenting historically significant locations…
The coolest use of scanning for art ever
I’ve written about some cool 3d-data-based art, from Geodigital’s Lidar as Art competition and real-time…
Sense and sensibility
One of the great selling points for 3D data acquisition is that it allows people…