HP TopShot Printer Attempts to Take Truly Three-Dimensional Images

The new HP TopShot LaserJet Pro M275 solves a trouble you probably didn't remember would have a solution: how to create a digital image of a three-dimensional object without having it look funny. A traditional flatbed scanner put up't handle the project, and a digital camera tends to flatten out everything (assuming that you can get the lighting right).

The TopShot LaserJet Pro M275 ditches traditional scanners for a television camera elevated on an arm positioned supra a Caucasoid chopine on best of the machine. You base an physical object on the platform, and the camera quickly takes sextet photos of the object: triad at different angles with a wink, and three at diverse angles without a flash.

The TopShot then sorts through the multiple images and selects what it needs–a contour Here, a shadow there–to create a single prototype that looks Thomas More three-dimensional than a rhythmical, single digital image would. It can print this image as an inst copy or save it as an electronic file on a connected PC.

We tried scanning a figurine of Crazy Crab, the San Francisco Giants' infamous former mascot.

The photograph down the stairs shows Crazy Crab lying on the TopShot's platen, ready for his close-leading.

Here's an image taken with a stuffy camera.

On a lower floor is the image taken by the TopShot. As you can see, the TopShot has overexposed much of Crazy Crab's surface, though he does look a snatch more three-dimensional.

The printer did a much better speculate scanning a pear, as you can meet in our GeekTech blog.

I've already detected several things most the TopShot's performance.

Objects may run down larger than they appear: If you make a copy of a 3D object, you'll note that information technology sometimes expands in size.

The object can't be too around the camera: The camera stands about 8.5 inches above the political program. When I placed an 8-inch object on the platform, the 3D copy came out severely overexposed (from the law of proximity of the flash, I assume) and staggeringly magnified. When I tried the same object as a glance over to .jpg format, the driver turned IT into a series of amorphous and unidentifiable pictur fragments. When I time-tested a slightly shorter targe, I got the same overexposure, but the image was more identifiable. An targe less than half of the television camera's to scanned without any major problems.

The TopShot LaserJet Affirmative M275 can likewise scan or copy plain old insipid documents, of course. It still appears to take the one cardinal photos, which seems like a waste, just the copies look okay.

I have a good deal of questions for HP after trying this product for a couple of hours. Stay tuned for the answers in our full review, coming soon.

Source: https://www.pcworld.com/article/477921/hp_topshot_printer_attempts_to_take_truly_three_dimensional_images.html

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