Multi-angle scanner sees objects from multiple perspectives

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Images of a ceramic tile taken with (left) a normal CCD and (right) the multi-angle scanner showing detailed surface structure. Image reprinted with permission from Forrest A. K. Copyright 2007 American Institute of Physics.
Images of a ceramic tile, taken with (left) a normal CCD, and (right) the multi-angle scanner, showing detailed surface structure. Image reprinted with permission from Forrest, A. K. Copyright 2007, American Institute of Physics.
Pablo Picasso might have taken an interest in one of the latest advances of imaging technology, nearly a hundred years after his invention of cubism. The artist famous for his style of portraying objects from multiple angles in a single drawing would find at least a few similarities in engineer Andrew Forrest’s multi-angle scanner.


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