Beijing-based People’s Architecture Office designed Copypod, a retractable structure which can be expanded into a 3D scanning booth. Inspired from Hoberman Sphere, the latter can 3D scan and change people or things into 3D printable models.
It mainly comprises a collection of DSRL cameras. The isokinetic structure has hinged scissor joints which facilitate the contraction as well as the expansion of the booth. Therefore, one can 3D scan all sizes and shapes.
For The People’s Industrial Design Office, “Objects [in the pod] are surrounded by a spherical array of over one hundred fixed focal length DSLR cameras. With minimal adjustment, the 3D Copypod can contract to scan small objects and expand large enough to scan a group of people.”
For the moment no precision is given about the quality of pictures, or the software used to transform the pictures into 3D models.