{"id":575,"date":"2019-07-05T09:03:59","date_gmt":"2019-07-05T09:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/tuba\/?p=575"},"modified":"2022-12-09T12:56:19","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T12:56:19","slug":"lights-scanners-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/environment\/2019\/07\/05\/lights-scanners-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Lights, Scanners, Action!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Act One, Scene One!<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n

Here at TUBA, we\u2019ve been busy sweating out with our new FARO Focus terrestrial scanner, taking 3D scans of the entire excavations at Vindolanda. Those that have visited the site and seen white spheres or “little spaceships” dotted across the site and a tripod bobbing around – that was us!<\/p>\n

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Clearly, there was a bit of movie magic going on because as soon as we left Teesside, the weather became absolutely, positively, gorgeous! Our poor noses barely had a chance to anticipate such glorious weather after leaving behind the torrential rain in Teesside, and may have come back home a tad red. Thanks to the rapid speed of the FARO scanner, some great scanning strategies, and some help from our wonderful new forensic science lecturer Dr Amber Collings, we managed to scan most of the site in just a handful of (long) days. If only the processing, merging and cleaning of the scans could be so quick!<\/p>\n

Act Two<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n

Whilst at Vindolanda, we\u2019ve also been doing some more 3D scans of their artefacts. We started with testing how well our scanner works on some of the wooden tools. The answer – lovely! Here\u2019s an example of what kind of models we get from scanning (small file size, but best be safe and load over WiFi):<\/p>\n