Today I was lucky enough to get training in the use of the College of Fine Arts' new 3D Laser scanner. The Konica Minolta Vivid 910 3D Laser Scanner uses a 2.5 second vertical Laser scan to capture depth information. The Laser is "eye-safe", so there is no problem scanning faces (as you can see), and multiple scans can be recombined to produce a highly-details result.
See http://blog.neonascent.net/archives/laser-3d-scanning/
The Vivid 910 used will export as .stl, .hrc, .obj, .dxf, ascii and vrml. file formats. You'll need to fill whatever holes there may be in the mesh though before you can get it printed.
joshharle 2 years ago