Best scanner for making Busts of People?

[My Thing in 3D]

I use a Sense scanner and print the busts myself on my Form 1,
BUT busts are the only thing I've had any success scanning with it at all
and I have to do extensive cleanup and repair to the file prior to printing.
And if your looking to preserve the color I loose that during processing.

[JSenior]

I use a Sense scanner and print the busts myself on my Form 1,
BUT busts are the only thing I've had any success scanning with it at all
and I have to do extensive cleanup and repair to the file prior to printing.
And if your looking to preserve the color I loose that during processing.

You can certainly keep the colour, it's just down to the the softwares capabilities which you're using to mesh the scans.

I did these two with a kinect scanner (same basic technology but less refined) a year or so ago. The scans were truly horrible and they probably took a day or more to remove the noisy data, merge together and colour balance (and the results are far from good!) I wouldn't have dreamt doing it without proper software however (Geomagic Wrap/Studio in that case.)






This is a quick 5 minutes scan and merge with a Faro Edge. No Colour but you can hopefully see the quality difference.

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