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Innovation in 3D
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There’s nothing like a 3D “mini me” to make you realize, “Yes, those jeans do make my butt look big!”
I had hoped that the result would be a bit more Hollywood when I’d stepped into what felt like the E! Red Carpet GlamCam360—iMakr’s 3D pop up body scanner.
iMakr, a value-added retailer of 3D printers and 3D scanners, offers lab and consulting expertise across a variety of 3D printers, 3D scanners, and 3D printing media.
The company offered the ability to scan me and then 3D print a “mini me”—the ultimate selfie.
Despite iMakr’s online advice against wearing reflective surfaces and tiny prints, I had insisted on wearing my sunglasses and holding a tribal print bag because I was testing this out for the brand. Would the final result be color correct? Would the patterns be accurate? How detailed would the shoes be?
I was surprised at the detail: tiny stitches on my sweater, the stripes on my athletic shoes, even the print on my bag was accurate, and the glare of my sunglasses was captured. The only problem, really—I looked frosted. Like I’d been dipped in sugar.
So color, not pattern, is an issue. -
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- 2016-06-01
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