We spent the last year designing and building a camera and software that can capture images with pixels that are 16-bits deep. It isn’t easy to view these images since most tools expect 8-bit images, so the following routine is used to squeeze the 65,536 values in the 16-bit image down to the 256 values…
This weekend we assembled the first of the new lenses (the 3D-360 will use 10 of them). The new lens is bright and sharp. We also assembled a variant of the LED Light Engine for military evaluation.
The Light Engine produces fairly collimated light.
I’m using a laser from Home Depot to roughly characterize a lens for Prototype 4B of the 3D-360 scanner. The lens looks like HAL from 2001.