From: cmcinnes@memex.co.uk (Craig McInnes)
Subject: Re: TECH: Self scan into 3-D image
Date: 8 Mar 1996 12:30:28 GMT
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From: cmcinnes@memex.co.uk (Craig McInnes)

: From: chflores@nmsu.edu (CHRISTOPHE FLORES)
: Can someone help, I'm doing research for a class proposal.  I'm
: looking into reproducing myself in a virtual 3-D image.  For example,
: can my personal body be scanned into a computerized 3-D image.  Not

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I think the thiggie you want is called the CyberSCanner.  This name
might be specific to the device the people at ILM (Industrial Light
and Magic) use, but they have such a device which was discussed in
this group a long time ago.

Check out http://delphi.beckman.uiuc.edu/vizlab.html, this lab have a
lot of equipment including the Cyberware Cyberscanner which I think is
the thing I was talking about further up.

Yep, just checked they have a whole body scanner for 410,000 dollars
their home page is http://www.cyberware.com/Cyberware-Welcome.html

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