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"3d scanning is as old as humanity" - The Roman emperor Gluteus Maximus

• tmilard 4y ago
  Yes, The target ( of Scanning 3D objects). But not the solution witch I bet, has had many differents solutions. This one solution ( 'slices od 2D'), one century old, still used in 3D laser scanning and printing, is poised to have a more robust and fine grained one.
  • 082349872349872 4y ago
    Ancient egyptians had 2d pantographs attached to linked turntables, enabling them to point in 3d.
    • kragen 4y ago
      It's possible, and one candidate explanation for how they were able to produce multiple identical immense statues at widely separated locations, but as far as I know nobody has found such a pantograph or turntable, nor drawings of it or writings about it, nor any other kind of evidence that this was the method they used.