Wer etwas der daheim gebliebenen Verwandschaft aus dem Barcelona Urlaub mitbringen will, sollte unbedingt “Be Your Own Souvenir!” von blablabLAB ausprobieren. Die Installation macht 360 Grad Scans von Personen und mithilfe eines 3D Druckers werden daraufhin originalgetreue Miniaturstatuen von ihnen angefertigt.

All the software used in this project is free and open. Custom software has been developed using openFrameworks and openKinect in order to produce a tunable full 360 degree point cloud. Using a midi controller, the three differents input pointclouds (3 Kinects) can be adjusted in space and resolution. The resulting combined point cloud is processed by Meshlab to produce a watertight mesh reconstruction (Poisson reconstruction). Skeinforge takes the mesh, previously cleaned up through Blender (in order to replace the bottom basement, and insert specific structural elements), and outputs a gcode file, which can feed a cnc machine (Rapman 3.1).

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