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Case study: Recording the UptonBishop Fragment

Type:

Non-contact recording using laser scanning

Keywords:

Non-contact, recording, 3D, archive, laser scanning, Upton Bishop, sandstone,

Creating a 3D Archive of the Upton Bishop Fragment

Introduction

In addition to photographic documentation,Upton Bishop Parochial Church Councilwanted an accurate three-dimensionalrecord of the sandstone fragment shownbelow. The fragment measuresapproximately 400 mm x 200 mm x 210mm and belongs to The Parish of St. Johnthe Baptist, Upton Bishop.

Upton Bishop Sandstone Fragment

Instruments and software

A ModelMaker X laser scanning systemwith a 70 mm stripe width, mounted on a 7-axes Faro gold arm was used for datacapture. Sensor-object separation wasmaintained at 50 mm throughout. Sensorand arm calibration had an average RMSerror of 0.03 mm. Scanning was carried outin our studios in Liverpool. Four scanningstations were required to capture the wholeobject. There was no sampling during datacapture. The software used to collect thedata was 3D Scanners UK ModelMaker V7beta release. Once scanning was complete,the data was 2D sampled at u = 0.2 and v =0.2 mm using MM V7. Polyworks V8(Innovmetric Software, Inc.) was employedfor data alignment, merging and post-processing. The maximum edge lengthparameter used during meshing was 0.2 mm.Rapidform2004 PP2 (INUS Technologies,Inc.) was used for registering and mergingthe data from the four scanning stationstogether. The average maximum deviationbetween the data from each of the scanningstations was 0.04 mm. Any areas where theFaro arm had been at full stretch duringscanning were deleted, and data fromanother station was substituted. Abnormalfaces were deleted and all holes were filledmanually using Rapidform2004.

Upton Bishop Fragment – screenshots of 3D data