ABSTRACT
In 2003 we were contacted by Norway’s national television broadcaster (NRK), which had a weekly science program called Schrödinger’s Cat. NRK wanted to make a short feature of this new technology that could make 3D objects fast and accurately; if we could include 3D scanning at the same time it would be fantastic. We took upon us the challenge and suggested we could scan in the TV host and then make a physical model of him. We had a Minolta VIVID 900 3D Scanner and three selective laser sintering (SLS) machines to build the model in. We made a platform that could rotate 360° and placed the TV host on it; then we scanned him in one go, rotating the platform six times. The photographer was enthusiastic when seeing the red laser beam scanning the face and torso of the host (see Fig. 1.1 left panel). We bid the TV team farewell and promised a physical model of the host the next day.
