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AB - White, S 2015 Virtual Archaeology – The NextEngine Desktop Laser Scanner. Archaeology International, No. 18: pp. 41–44, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/ai.1804 NEWS Virtual Archaeology – The NextEngine Desktop Laser Scanner Suzanna White Recent advances in 3D technology have led The NextEngine is well suited to the record- to the increasing use of virtual methods of ing of 3D surface data from archaeological data collection in archaeology, including finds. Although objects such as coins have the use of computed tomography (CT) and not yet been successfully scanned due portable laser scanners. One popular piece to their flat, homogeneous shape, the of equipment is the NextEngine Desktop 3D NextEngine scanner can accurately record laser scanner (www.nextengine.com), which many small to medium sized artifacts, was released in 2006 and offers the ability to with a precision of 0.13–1.66 mm (Polo & capture highly accurate 3D images of objects Felicísimo 2012). at a very competitive price. The release of The NextEngine comes with ScanStudio this scanner has greatly increased acces- HD Pro software, which allows highly auto- sibility to virtual surface data, for instance mated collection of 3D surface models as through the creation of virtual museums, well as the ability to align multiple scans and 
TI - Virtual Archaeology – The NextEngine Desktop Laser Scanner
JF - Archaeology International
DO - 10.5334/ai.1804
DA - 2015-11-23
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/unpaywall/virtual-archaeology-the-nextengine-desktop-laser-scanner-xpXUPE8V1h
DP - DeepDyve
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