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grape3D

Introduction

grape3D is an open source 3D scanner application. The software reconstructs a 3D model with corresponding texture from a 2D movie file. The resulting model can be imported in any 3D application like Blender, ZBrush©, Maya© or 3DS Max©. grape3D is GPL licenced.

How does it work?

Here's an example at different stages of the scanning process;

The green line is the automatically detected line by the software. In this case we have used default settings. Tweaking the settings will improve the results. For this example we have chosen not to do so. The mesh generated is still very noisy. In next releases we will work on automatically optimizating the mesh.
This mesh consists of >400k faces and >200k vertices. It was generated from 893 frames from a scanline area of 100x200px.

Help wanted!

If you're interested in helping, please join the mailinglist! There are lots of things to work on depending on preferences and skillset. On our ideas page we have listed quite a number of thoughts. If you find something you would like to work on or contribute to, just drop us a note so we can discuss it. We're looking mainly for:

Developers (different skill levels) to help out coding
Documenters to help develop multilingual tutorials and user manuals
Artists willing to upgrade our site / develop a logo for the project
People willing to donate scans so we can test our software
Platform maintainers who are willing to build the software on different platforms for distribution
Testers to use the software on their own work and provide feedback

If you would like to submit a patch, please create a bugreport and attach it.

News

29-March-2011

Unfortunately progress has been slow over the last year. Main achievements are reduction of dependencies and the support of MacOSX. From now testbuilds are available from here.

30-July-2010

After much work grape3D v0.03 has been released. This release is the first that is UI based. Though still in beta, it is a working version. Looking forward for comments and feedback.

19-July-2010

After carefull thought, it has been decided that ScanDraiD will be renamed to grape3D. All references to the old name will be phased out over the next months. The new pending release will be named grape3D v0.03. Also a new domain has been registered (grape3D.org). This website will be taken online over the next months. Stay tuned...

24-July-2009

ScanDraiD v0.0.2 has been released.