Considering the high cost associated with 3-D scanners and “printers”, most people would consider these machines to be useful, but not enough to justify the price tag—Enter the ProFORMA, which stands for Probabilistic Feature-Based On-line Rapid Model Acquisition.
Qi Pan, a PhD candidate at the Engineering Department of Cambridge University has developed the ProFORMA software, that enables a run-of-the-mill webcam to act as a real-time 3-D Scanner.
In due time, this is sure to be common among designers in several industries.
