3D Crime

[kailyon]

New show on A&E: Crime 360 (or something like that)

 

It showcases a 3D scanner (among other things) being used to scan crime scenes...from watching the vids on the A&E website and the leica scanner forensic website I can see that alot of the data ends up in 3Ds max as animation, however I'm not sure how.

 

I have used a scanner (& the accompanying Cyclone software) and the data it produces is a point cloud which is virtually useless in Max in raw form, or at least as far as I know. I am curious if anyone has any ideas on how they get this from scan to accurate 3D model (looks like meshes) to accurate animation in Max...(I can't say since we've only used the resulting data and models produced in the cyclone software to create files in 2D CAD software)

 

I was thinking cyclone (the scanner software) to Rhino to Max, or something similar, however I'm not all that familiar with software packages like Rhino and I don't know max well enough to know whether using meshes from a program like Rhino would bog it down or make it difficult to work with until everything was re-modeled or what and still retain a degree of accuracy....

 

Any comments/discussion welcome and appreciated! I need some more experienced folks to give me thier opinion or to expand on this as there is so much more I want to know (hard to get all my questions in without posting a book)

[SandmanNinja]

Is that the same scanner they used in the pilot for CSI:NY?

[kailyon]

Not sure but very possible...it's the latest and greatest in crime scene tools so it probably was that one, although I haven't seen a scanner of that kind on any subsequent episodes

[SandmanNinja]

Yeah, think they used it as a high tech toy, then dropped it for the 'regular' series. I prefer the Las Vegas series, but liked the "New York is full of Crime Families and Mafia" types. Liked it when the girl went into a restuarant to do her forensic tests and a Mafia-type was trying to bully her.

 

But I digress.

 

I found a link to the show's website:

http://www.aetv.com/crime-360/

[Simon Moir]

http://www.spheron.com

[leonmagnavox]

surprisingly weird project has been done via 3d scanner by our tutor in RMIT melbourne in a project called "Parametric Flesh : Architectural Pornography" which basically has nothing to do with architecture. the tutors just played with it; scanning their ass and boobs and make some mesh kind images

 

http://www.sial.rmit.edu.au/People/imewburn.php

 

have a look.. =P

[kailyon]

Sandman- I def prefer Las Vegas as well, but the whole threaten death by pizza oven in the episode you're talking about is the kind of stuff that makes NY worth watching

 

Thanks for posting the link. Any ideas on the workflow?

 

Oh, and thanks for the limk Simon! I'm always wondering what else is out there

[SandmanNinja]

Hi Kailyon,

 

http://www.dhimaging.com.au/tours/brb/property-101/main.html

 

I remember seeing this demonstrated at a conference I went to some time ago.

I do similar stuff, but it's all with physical cameras - not 3D.

 

I have a feeling the workflow to process the data from the spheron camera would be similar to data from motion capture devices...? But I have no idea how they get the data from their system into max. I quick search of their site for '3DS' turns up only a link to where they gave a demo at the AutoDesk Academy. http://www.spheron.com/en/news_archive/VI_news_archive.php