Posts made by Trevor Townsend

• MAF3 with Cross Polarization Filter and external ligth

  You built this with the THREE API? If so, that is impressive indeed! 

  posted in General 3D Scanning Discussion

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  Trevor Townsend
  2/4/26, 10:09 PM
• Texture from single scan not correctly aligned

  Hi Christian, The calibration process is not easy, you're right, which is why the scanner is calibrated in the factory using a robotic arm. It's possible to do it on your own, but we don't ask our...

  posted in THREE API and Programming

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  Trevor Townsend
  2/4/26, 4:56 PM
• MAF3 with Cross Polarization Filter and external ligth

  This is really cool stuff Christian. I will say that you should be able to get much better texturing results from THREE, using the regular method, than what you've demonstrated. That scan looks lik...

  posted in General 3D Scanning Discussion

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  Trevor Townsend
  1/18/26, 9:37 PM
• API vs Browser UI Theory

  Hi Rob, Those are all values that describe the points and how they inter-relate, and can be arranged in different ways depending on the particular file format you want to use. For example, and .xy...

  posted in THREE API and Programming

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  Trevor Townsend
  1/18/26, 9:32 PM
• Omiting scan improves result ?

  Hi Paul, That can happen when one scan, in this case your green one, is not well-aligned with the other scans. Keeping that scan will degrade the overall quality and removing it will improve it. ...

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  Trevor Townsend
  1/18/26, 9:29 PM
• Explain Scan settings options

  Hi Paul, There is no documentation on those, by design, as they are present for computer vision research and require extensive education in computer vision. There is no documentation we could writ...

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  Trevor Townsend
  12/18/25, 4:31 PM
• Exploring Ring Scanning Options

  @Christian Gassner It is not correct to say that "using marker with global marker registration is the much more precise and more professional setup for scanning jewlery". Marker registration is a t...

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  Trevor Townsend
  12/12/25, 6:10 PM
• 3D model of the calibration holder

  Hi Olivier,  We don't have these to print, sorry. You can pick up just the card and its holder, rather than the whole accessories package with the power cable, on amazon.com. Here is a link:&...

  posted in Feature Requests

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  Trevor Townsend
  11/10/25, 5:02 PM
• Exploring Scan Staging With Reference Objects

  Tom asked me to post the STL and STEP files for this ball pivot mount and I'm only too happy to do so! Thank you Tom for making this excellent scanning accessory!  The files are hosted on my...

  posted in General 3D Scanning Discussion

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  Trevor Townsend
  11/10/25, 4:59 PM
• Getting Started: Scanning Rings with THREE

  I'm glad you're enjoying your scanner Vik! Generally, light brown or white cardboard will be perfect. As long as it doesn't have a shine to it and is a neutral color it will be fine. For the jewel...

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  Trevor Townsend
  10/22/25, 8:27 PM
• Getting Started: Scanning Rings with THREE

  Echoing what Vaclav said, when I scan something small and symmetrical, I will often put it on top of a small box, something that has a large width x length so that it sticks out around the object, ...

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  Trevor Townsend
  10/21/25, 6:53 PM
• MFStudio Software for V3

  We talked extensively about the measurement tool and heatmapping in this blog post from January 25:    https://www.matterandform.net/blogs/news/v-10-software-update-this-is-the-big-one

  posted in Feature Requests

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  Trevor Townsend
  10/7/25, 5:03 PM
• MFStudio Software for V3

  Ironically we had full HDR in MFStudio but no one ever used it, so it wasn't a priority for THREE.

  posted in Feature Requests

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  Trevor Townsend
  10/6/25, 9:32 PM
• MFStudio Software for V3

  @Christian Gassner certainly it's your choice what you buy, but your post has inaccuracies, so I'll respond:  No markers / global markers are supported - CORRECT No HDR capturing (c...

  posted in Feature Requests

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  Trevor Townsend
  10/6/25, 7:09 PM
• Black Amorphous Shape - Slightly Askew Results

  Hey Tom, don't use markers - the software isn't set up to make use of them. However, if you add some "extra geometry" into the scan, it will help with alignment on symmetric pieces like this. My go...

  posted in General 3D Scanning Discussion

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  Trevor Townsend
  10/6/25, 6:59 PM
• MFStudio Software for V3

  Thanks for the input Christian!

  posted in Feature Requests

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  Trevor Townsend
  9/29/25, 6:56 PM
• Remeshing without hole filling

  Noted, thanks Jordan. We'll see what we can do. Another option to skip the hole filling is to export the scan from the Scans screen, by going into the menu and choosing Export. This exports the po...

  posted in Feature Requests

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  Trevor Townsend
  8/20/25, 2:58 PM
• Struggling with Merge results

  Hi Andrew, The Merge screen meshing step closes all holes on the scan. The bottom of that scan, under the cup holders, is devoid of points and so the mesh process just covers it over, creating thi...

  posted in General 3D Scanning Discussion

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  Trevor Townsend
  8/14/25, 1:55 PM
• Weird artifiacts appearing on scanned object while orbiting

  OK, thanks for this information. If you export the scan as an STL or PLY, and open it in meshlab  - do you see the same thing?  Also, could you export the project and your log file, and ...

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  Trevor Townsend
  7/17/25, 3:22 PM
• Weird artifiacts appearing on scanned object while orbiting

  Hi Zackary, this reminds me of a problem we had a few software revisions ago...what version of the software are you on?

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  Trevor Townsend
  7/17/25, 1:15 AM