The 3D scanner used here (sale right now): shrsl.com/47ito I shaved my beard off for this. Worth it, but now my face is cold. Want me to personally teach you how to use your 3D printer to learn sand casting? Click here: paulsmakeracademy.mykajabi.com/joinus
It's necessary for my wife, she has scoliosis so even clothes that are the right size don't fit. No more problems! She can make/adjust to the form and it's perfect
It's pretty fun. I started scanning everything in sight. The file sizes are pretty big though. This scanner is on sale this weekend (I think everything is on sale) on the Creality website, the link in the pinned comment takes you there. There are a few others out there too but I haven't seen reviews saying one is better than the other unless you get a super expensive one
Good luck! I'm having a blast modelling stuff up from the scans I've done. It's super fun to print something and get a flawless fit the first time on organic shapes
Man I've been wanting to scan my head like forever. Bought an iPhone 13 pro thinking I could do it but no... Of course I have completely ego-centric reasons for doing it, I want to cast a bust of my head :-D
what I would like to know is, how good is its dimensional accuracy? say does a 4 inch scanned item represent into a 4 inch mesh/stl/whatever? ps. great video. also why dont you put the funny comments at the end any more. where you have the patrons list at?
you can close the gaps that the face-mask leaves with 3d-printed rubber-pieces, stuck on the mask. Of course, you´ll use the 3d-model of your head, to find out the form of those rubber-pieces.
I'm new to the scanning scene but have been printing for about a year and a half now. Just picked up the Bambu Lab P1S a couple of months ago and this fu@ker is lightning fast compared to the Creality Ender 3 V2. Any tips would be appreciated.
@@PaulsGarage perhaps you can help it out with textured backgrounds, like random noise or a checkerboard printed on a piece of paper. The Kinect used a tiny laser projector with an infrared camera to detect the pattern on surfaces it saw. Not sure what this unit uses and if it relies on visible light as well.
Hey! I'm a geomatics engineer, with a masters degree specializing in optical metrology, and my thesis was on close-range 3D scanning techniques. I'm uniquely qualified to answer your questions about this tech! Ask Me Anything
A couple of tips, from watching the video. First, yeah hair sucks to scan. I recommend a swim cap. Second, scanners track their own position via relative motion of "the thing they're scanning" (which I generally refer to as the subject). If the subject changes shape or position relative to its surroundings (assuming those surroundings are also in the scan), then the scanner is going to have a hard time tracking its own position. To help, usually adding "tracking targets" (also called tie points) will help, but in the case of your face, making your neck harder to scan would actually probably help, since your head can move relative to your neck. In which case, wearing a black velvet cape would probably do the trick, it's like an invisibility cloak for the scanner. Third, besides adding tie points, Clough42 showed off this cool spray he got specifically for scanning. It's sort of like "frost in a can," you just spray it on and it'll sublimate on its own after a few minutes, but it'll last long enough to get a good scan in, and mitigate the black/shiny surface problem. Probably don't spray your face though. Fourth, if you want to scan something like a banana, but you need to flip it, you actually can scan the top, flip it, scan the bottom, and the software should do a decent job of aligning the top and bottom ASSUMING that the area of overlap between the two sides is both detailed and sufficiently large enough for the software to do it's thing, and that the background has been removed (or is just invisible to the scanner). Fifth, the scale factor on these things requires calibration, but short of a calibration tool that the manufacturer provides you, you can just scale your scan up or down after the fact, for instance in blender, as long as you scan something with a known size for reference. Generally speaking, the bigger the better (you'd prefer to interpolate the scale of your subject rather than extrapolate), as long as your size gauge can be scanned from effectively one position. Regulation sports balls actually tend to work fantastically, because you can really accurately estimate a sphere's radius from the points on its surface, and you can easily verify their diameter yourself. I once built a calibration field using just a 4'x3' sheet of MDF and about 60 ping-pong balls.
Wow thanks for the info! I've seen the spray but I haven't tried it yet. And that's a great idea with the black felt to make things "invisible". I never would've thought of that. So are there scanners that work better with surfaces like hair? Like maybe ones with laser scanning? I've seen larger industrial scanners that work really quickly, but it seems like they shoot a laser and/or have more cameras, some of which are farther apart. They aren't exactly a couple hundred bucks like this one but the technology seems a little different. As far as I know this does not shoot anything out. Is there a benefit to having more cameras and at different distances? I assume you could have more flexibility that way? And thanks for the info on calibrating the machine. I never bothered to do that, and to be honest I never checked to make sure the finished result was perfect either.
@@PaulsGarage Re: Hair, not really just because strands are so hard, but if you comb your hair flat and add way-too-much hair spray it might work well enough. Basically you want a mass of hair, not strands. Those kind of scanners with the cameras and laser are what I call triangulation laser scanners, and can be quite accurate indeed (talking sub-millimeter), but for that sort of accuracy you need a totally independent method of locating the scanner. One method is to have the scanner attached to a "robot" arm, except instead of motors, it's just encoders on the joints. That way, with the right calibration and precise measurements of the relative angles at each joint, the scanner's position can be known relative to the base of the arm. Your scanner there is a triangulation scanner too, but it's using an infra-red projector to shoot out a pseudo-random pattern, that the infra-red camera can then measure the parallax of. With the known separation of projector and the camera, and the (what boils down to, mathematically) angle of the parallax, the you can determine the depth in the image. BTW, the black-and-white speckled image below the coloured image is the infra-red image captured by the scanner. For the same reason in my comment before, the larger the off-set between the camera and the "thing doing the projection" (infra-red camera, or laser), the better precision in scale you'll have, but at the expense of being able to resolve smaller details, since you just get bigger projected pixels. Also, ideally, you'd want a 90 degree intersection between the center of the camera's perspective and the center of the projected infra-red image, but obviously that would exclude half of the subject, so compromises are made, and for your scanner they're nearly parallel. However, for the laser scanner, it projects a line, and as long as the camera can see that line, they can have a very steep intersection angle, giving a very clear depth measurement. But now I'm on a tangent. Yes, having a larger separation has the benefit of giving you a larger measurement volume, but like I said, trade offs.
I would recommend this too. I have both a big nose and a super long beard. I have the same issue with the air leaking on the side of the nose. I ended up buying a PAPR and the beard and nose become a non issue now. It’s a pricy cost, but I’ve been happy with it every time I need to wear it
Even just a full face respirator is much, much better than a half mask, especially for difficult fits and beards. Not as good as the papr, but worth looking into as well.
I am confused. At one point there were two you's, a white you, and a whiter you. Which you was you? One you said a lot, but the other you looked as though he wanted to say something if only chatty you would stop talking. So, which you did the video? That 3D scanner looks the biz.
Is that the lizard or something? I've never tried that one. In my experience, this one works best when hooked up to a computer not a phone, and in plenty of light
@@PaulsGarage no it was a lidar scanner i think. ill have to ask my wife when she gets home. she paid like 750 bucks for it 3 years ago and no matter what we did the results were always shit.
Your miniature head looks weird don't do it in metal. Reprint an embellished SUPER PAUL, and while your at it do his and her busts in ZN, AL or CU alloys.
Hers. She has tried making a dress form before, it never worked. Now we have an exact scan for her to work from. It's not perfect, you can't put a pin in it, but i can fix that in a future version
@@PaulsGarageput a layer of felt over the mannequin. About 5mm would be enough. My wife uses an adjustable mannequin and that's what it's covered with.
That was way to fast and it jumped all over the place. If you slowed down a bit and just concentrated on functionality then it might have been useful … sorry but switched this off !
You shaved for this, how you have sacrificed for your audience. What a tutorial! Actually, I wouldn’t mind seeing what you did for your wife, and what cosplay stuff she is making…
Sacrifice for my art! I need to make another dress form actually, so I might record the process. It's all in blender though so it might be kinda boring to watch
The 3D scanner used here (sale right now): shrsl.com/47ito
I shaved my beard off for this. Worth it, but now my face is cold.
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A custom-fit dress form - that's a really cool idea!
It's necessary for my wife, she has scoliosis so even clothes that are the right size don't fit. No more problems! She can make/adjust to the form and it's perfect
OK I'm now sold on this concept! Thanks! I'll look into getting one soon 👍👊
It's pretty fun. I started scanning everything in sight. The file sizes are pretty big though. This scanner is on sale this weekend (I think everything is on sale) on the Creality website, the link in the pinned comment takes you there. There are a few others out there too but I haven't seen reviews saying one is better than the other unless you get a super expensive one
You should use the small print of your head to cast a handle for a cane and start walking with it 😂😂
haha that would be awesome!
Pretty cool! Have you heard of death masks? Check them out, they're what your print reminds me of lol
You're totally right! I hadn't thought of that. Sounds oddly morbid lol
Mine is on the way! Checking reviews for tips, lo and behold one of my favorites has posted a review!
Good luck! I'm having a blast modelling stuff up from the scans I've done. It's super fun to print something and get a flawless fit the first time on organic shapes
Man I've been wanting to scan my head like forever. Bought an iPhone 13 pro thinking I could do it but no... Of course I have completely ego-centric reasons for doing it, I want to cast a bust of my head :-D
Haha casting a bust of myself is coming next! Great minds think alike. Or some kind of minds do anyways...
The tech is pretty impressive! I can't stand to go more than about 36 hours without shaving, but I'm sure it must suck going the other way, too.
Oh yeah there's the short stubble middle ground that is absolute torture. I'm beyond that step already
dude shaved his beard for a video props man thats impressive
It isn't growing back quickly enough
Nice / now you've gotta make a metal one !
metal one is next time 😉
@@PaulsGarage lol of course right after I posted that I got to you saying that [ though naturally a thing you'd almost have to do being you :) ]
what I would like to know is, how good is its dimensional accuracy? say does a 4 inch scanned item represent into a 4 inch mesh/stl/whatever? ps. great video. also why dont you put the funny comments at the end any more. where you have the patrons list at?
you can close the gaps that the face-mask leaves with 3d-printed rubber-pieces, stuck on the mask. Of course, you´ll use the 3d-model of your head, to find out the form of those rubber-pieces.
Please tell me you’re going to cast that bust! Who doesn’t need an aluminum bronze bust of themselves???
Of course I'm going to cast some!
I'm new to the scanning scene but have been printing for about a year and a half now. Just picked up the Bambu Lab P1S a couple of months ago and this fu@ker is lightning fast compared to the Creality Ender 3 V2. Any tips would be appreciated.
Pretty much the same experience with the original Kinect a few years ago, only that thing was a lot chunkier and less accurate for smaller details
I'm surprised, this thing gets tiny details great but it absolutely cannot scan small things. I don't get it.
@@PaulsGarage perhaps you can help it out with textured backgrounds, like random noise or a checkerboard printed on a piece of paper.
The Kinect used a tiny laser projector with an infrared camera to detect the pattern on surfaces it saw. Not sure what this unit uses and if it relies on visible light as well.
nice to have a spare head.
I keep losing my mind, now I have extra
I was apprehensive you would be offended. I appreciate your sense of humor. Always enjoy your videos@@PaulsGarage
leave little prints of your smiling head around the house in random places for your wife to find!!!
I assume the rest of the full body scan is available on your OF?
Haha just stick my head on the Michelin man and you're close enough
Hey! I'm a geomatics engineer, with a masters degree specializing in optical metrology, and my thesis was on close-range 3D scanning techniques. I'm uniquely qualified to answer your questions about this tech! Ask Me Anything
A couple of tips, from watching the video.
First, yeah hair sucks to scan. I recommend a swim cap.
Second, scanners track their own position via relative motion of "the thing they're scanning" (which I generally refer to as the subject). If the subject changes shape or position relative to its surroundings (assuming those surroundings are also in the scan), then the scanner is going to have a hard time tracking its own position. To help, usually adding "tracking targets" (also called tie points) will help, but in the case of your face, making your neck harder to scan would actually probably help, since your head can move relative to your neck. In which case, wearing a black velvet cape would probably do the trick, it's like an invisibility cloak for the scanner.
Third, besides adding tie points, Clough42 showed off this cool spray he got specifically for scanning. It's sort of like "frost in a can," you just spray it on and it'll sublimate on its own after a few minutes, but it'll last long enough to get a good scan in, and mitigate the black/shiny surface problem. Probably don't spray your face though.
Fourth, if you want to scan something like a banana, but you need to flip it, you actually can scan the top, flip it, scan the bottom, and the software should do a decent job of aligning the top and bottom ASSUMING that the area of overlap between the two sides is both detailed and sufficiently large enough for the software to do it's thing, and that the background has been removed (or is just invisible to the scanner).
Fifth, the scale factor on these things requires calibration, but short of a calibration tool that the manufacturer provides you, you can just scale your scan up or down after the fact, for instance in blender, as long as you scan something with a known size for reference. Generally speaking, the bigger the better (you'd prefer to interpolate the scale of your subject rather than extrapolate), as long as your size gauge can be scanned from effectively one position. Regulation sports balls actually tend to work fantastically, because you can really accurately estimate a sphere's radius from the points on its surface, and you can easily verify their diameter yourself. I once built a calibration field using just a 4'x3' sheet of MDF and about 60 ping-pong balls.
Wow thanks for the info! I've seen the spray but I haven't tried it yet. And that's a great idea with the black felt to make things "invisible". I never would've thought of that. So are there scanners that work better with surfaces like hair? Like maybe ones with laser scanning? I've seen larger industrial scanners that work really quickly, but it seems like they shoot a laser and/or have more cameras, some of which are farther apart. They aren't exactly a couple hundred bucks like this one but the technology seems a little different. As far as I know this does not shoot anything out.
Is there a benefit to having more cameras and at different distances? I assume you could have more flexibility that way?
And thanks for the info on calibrating the machine. I never bothered to do that, and to be honest I never checked to make sure the finished result was perfect either.
@@PaulsGarage Re: Hair, not really just because strands are so hard, but if you comb your hair flat and add way-too-much hair spray it might work well enough. Basically you want a mass of hair, not strands.
Those kind of scanners with the cameras and laser are what I call triangulation laser scanners, and can be quite accurate indeed (talking sub-millimeter), but for that sort of accuracy you need a totally independent method of locating the scanner. One method is to have the scanner attached to a "robot" arm, except instead of motors, it's just encoders on the joints. That way, with the right calibration and precise measurements of the relative angles at each joint, the scanner's position can be known relative to the base of the arm.
Your scanner there is a triangulation scanner too, but it's using an infra-red projector to shoot out a pseudo-random pattern, that the infra-red camera can then measure the parallax of. With the known separation of projector and the camera, and the (what boils down to, mathematically) angle of the parallax, the you can determine the depth in the image. BTW, the black-and-white speckled image below the coloured image is the infra-red image captured by the scanner.
For the same reason in my comment before, the larger the off-set between the camera and the "thing doing the projection" (infra-red camera, or laser), the better precision in scale you'll have, but at the expense of being able to resolve smaller details, since you just get bigger projected pixels. Also, ideally, you'd want a 90 degree intersection between the center of the camera's perspective and the center of the projected infra-red image, but obviously that would exclude half of the subject, so compromises are made, and for your scanner they're nearly parallel. However, for the laser scanner, it projects a line, and as long as the camera can see that line, they can have a very steep intersection angle, giving a very clear depth measurement. But now I'm on a tangent. Yes, having a larger separation has the benefit of giving you a larger measurement volume, but like I said, trade offs.
And this doesn't even touch on time-of-flight scanners
Seems to be better than pop2 when comes to head scan?
No idea, never tried a pop2 but this thing works great
I know a PAPR is expensive, but they are very comfortable and shouldn't have any problems with fitment.
I would recommend this too. I have both a big nose and a super long beard. I have the same issue with the air leaking on the side of the nose.
I ended up buying a PAPR and the beard and nose become a non issue now. It’s a pricy cost, but I’ve been happy with it every time I need to wear it
I think you're right, I may just need to invest
Even just a full face respirator is much, much better than a half mask, especially for difficult fits and beards. Not as good as the papr, but worth looking into as well.
How's the detail if you scale down to 1/10? Would be great for rc rock crawlers. Put yourself behind the wheel.
Very good. It depends on the printer and resin but I have some heads that are 1" tall that are definitely my face.
I am confused. At one point there were two you's, a white you, and a whiter you. Which you was you? One you said a lot, but the other you looked as though he wanted to say something if only chatty you would stop talking. So, which you did the video?
That 3D scanner looks the biz.
The whiter me might be the only guy out there who is actually paler than I am 🤣
i bought a creality 3d scanner and i cant get it to work at all. it was a turn table one not that one though
Is that the lizard or something? I've never tried that one. In my experience, this one works best when hooked up to a computer not a phone, and in plenty of light
@@PaulsGarage no it was a lidar scanner i think. ill have to ask my wife when she gets home. she paid like 750 bucks for it 3 years ago and no matter what we did the results were always shit.
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Lol, you beat Adam Savage by like 10 hours.
Great minds think alike I guess? 🤣
Can you make a gear?
Probably. A scan probably won't work for making an exact gear to work with a machine, but it could be close
What was u with the audio? Or was it just on my end?
That's on my end. It's so bad 😭. Shouldn't happen next time, I'm switching audio equipment
@@PaulsGarage Some bug maybe? It was fine the last videos
Dude...to properly use a respirator you either have to go full face or shave.
Edit: You knew! Sorry to jump the gun on that
Full face works for me, even shaving doesn't. Nose doesn't allow the other to work at all
Your hair is as long as mine now! Does it feel funny after shaving? 😅
Yes very much! Very cold jaw...
@@PaulsGarage haha. I know what you mean. It will grow back fast. Just don't cut your hair. It won't grow back so fast. Lol
gasp naked paul
I feel naked even fully clothed now lol. How lewd, showing off my chin...
scan and then print a lathe
A printed lathe would be fun to try. Not sure it would be very usable though.
@@PaulsGarage Scan and print the lathe so you can metal cast the lathe!
I bought one of these and it was complete garbage. Wouldn't scan anything. Sold it on EBay for a fraction of what I paid.
2:27 - Oh boy, this might be problematic in 2023.
Your miniature head looks weird don't do it in metal. Reprint an embellished SUPER PAUL, and while your at it do his and her busts in ZN, AL or CU alloys.
Still not used to that face lol
Me neither
@@PaulsGarage How are the wife and kids coping with a bare faced Paul?
2 youngest kids haven't even noticed, no reaction. Oldest kid and wife want it to grow back. I think they want something to cover up my face 🤣🤣
@@PaulsGarage Have any of them even seen a bare faced Paul before?
Was scanning your wife to make a mannequin your idea or hers?
Hers. She has tried making a dress form before, it never worked. Now we have an exact scan for her to work from. It's not perfect, you can't put a pin in it, but i can fix that in a future version
@@PaulsGarageput a layer of felt over the mannequin. About 5mm would be enough. My wife uses an adjustable mannequin and that's what it's covered with.
That was way to fast and it jumped all over the place. If you slowed down a bit and just concentrated on functionality then it might have been useful … sorry but switched this off !
You shaved for this, how you have sacrificed for your audience. What a tutorial! Actually, I wouldn’t mind seeing what you did for your wife, and what cosplay stuff she is making…
Sacrifice for my art! I need to make another dress form actually, so I might record the process. It's all in blender though so it might be kinda boring to watch