3D Around the World

Articles sourced from around the globe to give you ideas on how you can use the latest in 3D Technology right here in Australia.
Tokyo police are collecting 3D mugshots and keeping them in a database forever.
Laser Scanning a forest is used to determine more wood from fewer trees from Irish Company Treemetrics.
An enormous 3d Printed Lion Looms Outside France’s Grand Olympic Stadium. 
Iceman – Otzi’s 3D Printed twin is on display at the DNA Learning Centre un Cold Spring Harbour NY after being reborn on a 3D printer.
Laser Scanning is an invaluable tool in Archaeology both in England and our very own Toorale Man found on the banks of the Darling River.
Legacy Effects have been 3D Scanning and 3D Printing for ages in blockbusters like Twilight and Terminator, now they have used it for the ultimate in advertisement slots; the Superbowl. Learn about creating clones here.
Massey University have developed a simple 3D scanning and printing method that will help students learn anatomy.
3D scanning and 3D printing have become essential parts of the movie making business and Hollywood is waking up to the potential of reverse engineering in a big way. Hope Australia also wakes up to this!
Lidar Scanning, the technology we have come to love is also in music video’s.
WWE stars – Brie Bella and Bray Wyatt get 3D Scanned for video games.
The first 3D Printed Wedding dress is worn in Sri Lanka by designer Charlene Thuring.
Roger Bacon 3D Printed and customizable wearables and accessories are already selling custom-made 3D printed glasses throughout the Netherlands, and are now coming to the US.
Virtual Tours made possible by 3D Scanning the Iolani Palace in Hawaii.
3D Scanning the European Refugee Crisis.
The National Museum of Natural History at the FICCI building in New Delhi has been gutted by fire with hundreds of specimens destroyed including a 160 million-year-old fossil of a sauropod’s femur. The Director of the National Museum of Natural History, said: “All exhibits were precious. We feel really sad that all our work is gone”. This would be an understatement.
What would happen if any of the Australian museum’s were to be destroyed?
The Smithsonian Museum in Washington have taken on what would have to be the largest 3D Scanning project ever – 3D scanning every priceless artefact and making it possible to download in any part of the world and to preserve our history even from fire. You can 3D Print the models for education purposes or take a Virtual Tour – all made possible using 3D Scan Data.
Reebok’s using 3D Technology to scan feet and 3D Print inner soles.