相机是枪,掏出来瞄准就是了。三维扫描仪则是那种逗猫的工具,因为你要在景物之中行走,摇晃着手里的设备,用它的视角顺着景物的毛发一路抚摸下去。它不是那种在快门一睁一闭之间观察世间的工具。它痴痴地看,看事物的正面和反面。这是一种专注的机器。首先,把需要扫描的景物安置入显示器中的一个红色半透明的立方体里。这个立方体框定了扫描仪的目光所及之处。对于立方体之外的世界,它完全是盲的。事物的表面延伸至立方体的边 The camera is a gun, it is out of sight. The 3D scanner is the kind of funny cat tool, because you want to walk in the scenery, shaking the hands of the equipment, with its perspective along the hair of the subject stroked along the way. It is not the kind of tool that looks at the world as the shutters open and close. It journeys to see the front and the back of things. This is a dedicated machine. First, place the scene you want to scan into a red, translucent cube in your monitor. This cube defines the scanner’s eyesight. For the world outside the cube, it is completely blind. The surface of the thing extends to the side of the cube