Arius3D Foundation System

Arius3D Foundation System, headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, is a hardware and software company that manufactures a high resolution 3D color laser scanner, and develops point cloud editing and processing software called Pointstream. The company was formed in 2000 when the National Research Council of Canada awarded Arius3D the exclusive worldwide right to commercialize it's patented high resolution 3D synchronous color laser scanning technology.

The Arius3D Foundation syncronous scanning technology uniquely captures both the geometry and the color of a 3D object irrespective of ambient light. The technology developed at the National Research Council of Canada over a period of 17 years is derived of 7 patents held by the Government of Canada.

The system is comprised of three main components including the syncronous scanning head, a red/green/and blue laser source, and a coordinate measuring machine which allows for the capture of extremely fine details of an object down to 100 micrometres in the X and Y direction and as fine as 25 micrometres in the Z direction.

The Arius3D Foundation system has been used in museums to digitally capture and archive precious collections including paintings, sculptures, and even the skeletal remains of prehistoric dinosaurs. Forensic anthropologists have used the technology to capture and study human skeletal remains. Medical institutes use the Arius3D scanned data in teaching and researching. Computer graphic production companies have used the Arius3D scanned data in some of the greatest special effects ever seen on the big screen. The Arius3D Foundation system has even been used to digitally athenticate some of the most famous baseball signatures on baseballs and collectables.

The Arius3D Pointstream software provides a suite of tools that allow users to process, edit, manipulate, and visualize point cloud data using points as the basic primitive. The typical process of converting cloud point datasets into polygon data is virtually eliminated.

External links

* [http://www.arius3d.com/ Official website]