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Creaform Metrascan Laser Scanning head on its Tripod and the hand scanning unit below it in the open Pelicase

The dual camera tracking head is a large cylindrical beam mounted on a robust camera tripod about 6ft up. In the center is a sleeve that the tripod mount is on. It has coloured indicator lights bars that show the status of various aspects of the scanning operation status. At both ends of the beam, which is about 1.5m long, are “eye” pods each pod houses a digital camera with a ring of IR led illuminators around the perimeter of the camera lens aperture. In a large Pelicase transport box beneath the tripod is the handheld scanning unit. The unit is like an open sphere made of triangular sections linked with thin metal tubes. A bit smaller than a football. Each node where the triangles meet has a flat disk with reflective spots around the circumference and a spot in the centre of the flat top. This contains the laser scanner head. The reflective spots are monitored by a dual camera head to track the hand unit in 3d space.

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