Pine and Spruce Cone - 3D-Scan Examples

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I had issues, when I tried to scan an pine cone (for a jewelry-idea) with my line-laser-scanner, the resulting print-cloud didn´t compute well. I tried free-hand-photogrammetry (phone-app) with good results before - but it works best for lager parts and so it did not work here, too. Thing 3958326, a turtable, was already on my "things to make"-list and now the time had come to print and build it: https://www.thingiverse.com/make:936369 https://youtu.be/lTTw_M8n798 It really works great. I used Meshroom to calculate everything. Meshroom needs an nvidia-graphics-card - and you must have patience: The calculation may last serval hous (2.5 in my case). The OBJ is then taken for the temp-folder. With Meshlab, Blender or an equivilant tool you can cut parts that are not needed and make the scan watertight. Tip: A pattern on the plate helps the software stitching the photos.