Gourango
I don't personally do much of this type of work, but from my limited knowledge you would probably be looking for a nurbs surface. This is what car manufactures use to model the curves on new models. I am pretty sure that a program called polyworks can create nurbs. They are basically like a 3d spline.
This is all I really know but it will give you a direction to go in.
Phill.
Replicating caves from Scan Data
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Re: Replicating caves from Scan Data
Hi there, we do quite alot of replication from scan data, sounds like your best bet it to create a mesh from the scan data, hole fill and invert it .I imagine they're quite big so it might be best to break it into bits and get a company to CNC machine section into a sturdy model board or polystyrene and piece it back together. Hope this is of some use, Joe
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Re: Replicating caves from Scan Data
Interesting sounding project.
Since you are not going to be scaling the model down, it looks like you will need to spit up the mesh to keep up the resolution.
I hope you have time to put up some images as work progresses throught the project.
Since you are not going to be scaling the model down, it looks like you will need to spit up the mesh to keep up the resolution.
I hope you have time to put up some images as work progresses throught the project.