[Work] Aguru images

[Work] Inkscape

under linux

Inkscape is a good choice for vector graphics.

[Work] iGroup china

iGroup China
http://www.igroup.com.cn/

[Work] Amazing book scanner

Kirtastech
http://www.kirtastech.com/

[Photo] camera test charts

Imatest
http://www.imatest.com/

[Work] document scanning

Contex China

Ideal.com
http://www.ideal.com/
Large format imaging solutions

ColorTrac China

Crowley
http://www.thecrowleycompany.com/index.html
World leader in document, book and film imaging

DoubleClick
http://www.doubleclick.com/index.aspx
The nerve center of digital marketing

Internet Archive
http://www.archive.org/index.php
Internet library

STRATASYS
The leading provider of 3D prototyping

A model of Stockholm

Dimension® 3D Printing Group

Imaging Connections
http://www.imagingconnections.com/
Imaging connections is a network of local and national document scanning service and document scanning technology companies.

We provide such services as: Document Management Services, File Scanning and Imaging Services, Large Format Scanning, Microfiche Conversion, Electronic File Conversion (to PDF, TIFF and over 240 additional file formats), Optical Character Recognition (OCR), and File Naming and Indexing Services.

http://www.ricoh.com/

中晶扫描仪 microtekshop
http://www.microtekshop.com/

奥博信加拿大有限公司
AWB Infosource Corp

from
http://www.awbsoft.com/5_4.htm

关于网书出版系统

传统上，人类用书本记载和传播知识。章节构成书本，书本集成书架，书架汇成书库。它们有序地组织并展示信息和知识。这是古老而自然的用户界面，它简单直观、层次清晰，逻辑性强，远比目前的电脑图形用户界面友好。

互联网收藏巨大、组织松散，网页集合成网站，而不是"网书"。大量的网页依靠超链接和搜索引擎的引导，使人们能找到所要的信息。互联网抽象，缺乏逻辑层次和物理空间感。在真实的图书馆，本来成千上万页的纸张，按照专题划分单元，装订成书本，归类放在书架，读者可以感觉到藏书量，感觉到书本厚薄、顺序、章节和前后关系。一个同样网页数量的网站，我们不知其规模和深浅，看完了多少，处在何处。一个链接将我们突然引导到另一个网页，随波逐流，很快就迷了路。

人们更喜欢传统式书本阅读。除了携带方便，字体清晰，它的简单的结构和自然的方式更是主要优点。网书出版系统将"网书"定位于网络空间中一组相关主题的网页的结构性集合，前端呈现传统书本方式，将内容划分成章节单元，以浏览标签分隔引导。它使读者在面对大量的内容时，自然地感觉出层次结构，从而减少迷失感。可视化赋予抽象网络空间于物理真实感，加上电脑和网络本身特有的检索功能，构成理想的网络内容出版方式。

[Work] using shortcuts

Geting used to shortcuts can make life much easier.

We can also configure the shortcuts of an application.

[Work] labs, links

北京博维恒信科技发展有限公司

清华信息科学与技术国家实验室

先进人机通信技术联合实验室

Visual Media research center

led by Shimin Hu

http://cg.cs.tsinghua.edu.cn/vm/

I will focus on acquisition techniques, especially 3D scanning.

3D visual computing and robotics group

Peking University

http://www.cis.pku.edu.cn/vision/Visual&Robot/research/research.htm

National Laboratory on Machine Perception at Peking University

http://www.cis.pku.edu.cn/vision/vision.htm

Institute of HCI and Media Integration
http://media.cs.tsinghua.edu.cn/en/teacher

上海数造机电科技有限公司
http://www.digitalmanu.com/

临界四维有限公司
http://www.rprert.cn/index.htm

北京天远三维科技有限公司
http://www.3dscan.com.cn/

生信实维有限公司
http://www.cad21.com/qyjj.htm

Konica Minolta
http://konicaminolta.com.cn/instruments/index.html

http://www.viscan.com/index.htm


北京技睿新天科技有限公司

[Work] machines

titan

infao4720
infao4721
infao4722

optium-00
optium-01
optium-02
optium-03
optium-04
optium-05
optium-06

[Work] change LD_LIBRARY_PATH

if the program cannot locate some *.so libraries and you are not the root user, change the LD_LIBRARY_PATH of your shell resource file,

for tcsh

setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH $HOME/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

In this case, you can put any missed libraries into the fold $HOME/lib

for bash

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/lib:PATH

[Work] some 3D scanning papers

http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~allen/PHOTOPAPERS/

[Work] 3D scanning

excerpts from
Picture Perfect Modeling

What else limits the penetration of 3D scanning? "In a word, cost," says Edward Anderson, program manager with Air Products, Inc., of Pensacola, Florida, who uses 3D scanning devices in managing repairs and updates in process plant environments. "We have to make capturing the data so cheap that the return on investment can be calculated in months or weeks, not years. Plus, when the field data can be turned automatically into a 3D model via software, then the cost will really come down, and this work process will boom."


There are many frontiers in 3D photography, and many problems to be solved. Pre-cision measurements are difficult to make, accurate scanning devices are expensive and bulky, and processing techniques are time consuming. No single scanning method dominates the field, and no single manufacturer has captured the marketplace. "The opportunities are vast," says Lyle Shirley, an optical physicist and president of Dimensional Photonics Inc., a Massachusetts-based 3D imaging start-up company. "But the applications for accurate 3D imaging systems are unlimited."

What does all this development in 3D scanning and processing mean for the professional user of 3D photography? Will inexpensive commercial 3D cameras eventually become off-the-shelf commodities that are as easy to use as traditional cameras? This technology certainly has the potential to bring low-cost 3D desktop scanning to the professional market, a goal many researchers have dreamed about and worked toward for years. "A 3D imaging system coupled with a stereolithographic printer or rapid prototyping device would enable both 3D fax machines and 3D copy machines," declares Shirley. The concept of a high-precision single-box 3D scanning device is an exciting idea. It's the 3D camera of the future, and a picture we look forward to seeing.

[Work] 3D scanning/photography metrology

+++ simple 3D
links for 3D Scanners, Digitizers, and Software for making 3D Models and 3D Measurements

+++ 3dlinks
3D links

-- Direct Dimensions

-- 北京朝日三维科技有限公司

--- The Society of Manufacturing Engineers has a technology group for Rapid Technologies & Additive Manufacturing with a work group focused on 3D Data Capture / Reverse Engineering.

--- Wohlers Associates, Inc. provides technical, marketing, and strategic consulting on the new developments and trends in product design, prototyping, tooling, and manufacturing. The company's web site has a section dedicated to 3D Digitizing and Reverse Engineering.

--- Dimensional Photonics

--- Geomagic

--- Innovmetric
Québec, QC Canada
Innovmetric china (Shanghai)
博力加软件（上海）有限公司

--- Metris
Leuven, Belgium

--- Canadian Measurement Metrology Inc. (CMM)
Canada (near Toronto)

[Photo] soft focus effect

http://www.nickgallery.com/web_pages/technical%208.htm

[Photo] Portrait photography

The New Portrait: A study in Three Parts

These ten contemporary photographers approach the subject of the human form in vastly different ways.

[Photo] Hasselblad Masters

get inspired

Hasselblad Masters
http://www.hasselbladusa.com/masters-2007.aspx


http://www.hasselbladusa.com/masters-2007/march---raya.aspx


"Believe in yourself, don't give up and have confidence, aim very high and always to want to do better. Of 30 closed doors, there will be one which will open."
-- Raya

[Tips] Mozilla keyboard shortcuts

Mozilla keyboard shortcuts

new Tab: Ctrl + t
close Tab: Ctrl + w
close window: Ctrl + Shift + w
switching Tab: Ctrl+PageUp(PageDown) or Alt + 1/2/3...