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Evan Johnston and Evan Johnston

The Turntable-less Laser Scanner is a 3d scanning system designed for simplicity, in implementation and in use. It does not use any electronic components other than a line laser and a camera. Existing solutions either require complicated hardware, or advanced computer vision techniques, which requires complex, cumbersome software. In this setup the bed the object to be scanned rests on, and the line laser both have printed tracking markers, which the camera uses to estimate their location relative to the camera using opencv. These locations are used to calculate the location of points on the object illuminated by the laser beam, by intersecting a ray coming from the camera with the laser plane.