Qi Pan, Gerhard Reitmayr and Tom Drummond in the Division of Information Engineering at Cambridge University Engineering Department developed this little bit of craziness called ProFORMA. ProFORMA is a system designed to enable on-line reconstruction of textured 3D objects rotated by a user’s hand- holy crap! ProFORMA was a winner of ISMAR Best Demo Prize of 2009. For all you big-heads and nerdos out there, you can find the whitepaper here, describing that the system works by calculating the Delaunay tetrahedralisation of a point cloud that is obtained from on-line structure from estimation of motion which is then carved using a recursive and probabilistic algorithm to rapidly grab the surface mesh. yep, more nerdiness can be found here.
