How has the significance of three-D scanning changed as the class has continued with their pursuit of three-D printing objects?

It was interesting this week in class to watch John take a three-D scan of Zev in front of the class. Scanning is something that so many people in class have expressed to be a very intimate understanding between scanner and subject of the implication of taking a complete image of ones body, and here we are, with 30+ students’ gaze on this process. The openness of this action demonstrates the comfort that all of my peers have with one another. In week seven I have noticed the importance that three-D scanning has taken in everyone’s project. Even my own project has now grown to include three-D scanning in order to simplify the modeling process of glasses frames. The act of three-D scanning in class demonstrates the importance of this technology as well, with three-D scanning being the yin to three-D printing’s yang.