{"id":444,"date":"2012-06-02T12:22:01","date_gmt":"2012-06-02T19:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patrickconnors.com\/blog\/?p=444"},"modified":"2012-06-03T17:49:27","modified_gmt":"2012-06-04T00:49:27","slug":"kinect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.patrickconnors.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/02\/kinect\/","title":{"rendered":"Kinect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m playing with making a Kinect into an affordable digitizer.<\/p>\n<p>So here&#8217;s the first shot: A single scan from a single angle. Almost no cleanup: pulled into Lightwave and minimal color added.This particular scan is actually full of holes, most of which are covered by the use of a black background.<\/p>\n<p>Next steps will be to get multiple angles, stitch them together and further cleanup.<\/p>\n<p>A scan takes a couple of seconds on my computer. For multiple angles, I&#8217;ll probably add a timer and a means to either move the Kinect around me or a spinning seat. I was scanned years ago on a Hollywood laser scanner that was on display at the Tech Museum in San Jose. (It&#8217;s not there anymore, alas). That scanner moved around me as I sat still, that&#8217;s probably the best approach, if more Stuff to build.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_459\" style=\"width: 202px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patrickconnors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/pmc_kinect_001_small.png\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-459\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-459\" title=\"pmc_kinect_001_small\" src=\"http:\/\/www.patrickconnors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/pmc_kinect_001_small.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"192\" height=\"144\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-459\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Me, scanned with a Kinect and rendered in Lightwave.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m playing with making a Kinect into an affordable digitizer. So here&#8217;s the first shot: A single scan from a single angle. Almost no cleanup: pulled into Lightwave and minimal color added.This particular scan is actually full of holes, most &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patrickconnors.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/02\/kinect\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.patrickconnors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.patrickconnors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.patrickconnors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.patrickconnors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.patrickconnors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.patrickconnors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":458,"href":"http:\/\/www.patrickconnors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions\/458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.patrickconnors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.patrickconnors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.patrickconnors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}