If you have textured surfaces, you can also "just" use a camera that you move around the scene. Turns out, most surfaces have sufficient texture if you go close

If you have textured surfaces, you can also "just" use a camera that you move around the scene. Turns out, most surfaces have sufficient texture if you go close-up. There are DIY gantrys for the line-laser type of scanner. The software tends to be significantly more complicated. Here's a link to something fairly modern, yet not dependent on ML [0], project page here [1]. The code is open-source, but it has/had some issues when running on Linux, the critical ones I fixed in my GH fork. [0]: https://www.gcc.tu-darmstadt.de/media/gcc/papers/Aroudj-2017-TSR-Prepress.pdf https://www.gcc.tu-darmstadt.de/media/gcc/papers/Aroudj-2017... [1]: https://www.gcc.tu-darmstadt.de/home/proj/tsr/tsr.en.jsp https://www.gcc.tu-darmstadt.de/home/proj/tsr/tsr.en.jsp