I thought this was interesting and timely: a story over on Jalopnik titled “From Bucket to Binary: Morrison Corvette Scanned into Gran Turismo” (Link) concerning the 3D scanning of a beautiful 1960 Corvette. From the article:

…the 1960 Corvette was completed just in time to take Best in Show at the 4th Annual Grand Turismo Awards ceremony at the 2006 Las Vegas show. As part of this achievement the Corvette would be forever immortalized in digital form in the upcoming Next Edition Gran Turismo…
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In a darkened room a thin red beam of light shot from the box across the up on the rack Corvette, and relayed data through a three-quarter inch data cable snaking from the back of the black box on a tripod.
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When the scan was complete a full 3d model of the car was soon rotating around on the computer screen. With a click or two of the mouse the entire car began unfolding in three dimensions on a screen in front of Art and Craig’s eyes. To fill in the wireframe back at GTHD central a four-person crew took video and still imagery of the car.

Now you have an idea why I post stuff about scanners and software which takes that information and cleans it up (reLink). And design competitions where both real and virtual models will be made of the winning entry (reLink), which, by the way, was announced the other day (Link to C|Net). Oh yeah, and videos showing realistic material simulations in videogames (reLink).

So go read the Jalopnik article. Look at the images. Only instead of thinking about capturing a piece of automative history, imagine creating its future.

via Blue’s News

{Image source: Jalopnik}