LiDar scanning works through light reflectance to measure the distance an object lies from the camera in order to build a point cloud and through connecting these points via vertices you get a polygonal mesh model as a virtual object. This method tends to perform better than photogrammetry which assembles a model of an object …

We also found there are some limitations to the Artec Space Spider as far as scale in the attempt to scan a species of bee. It appears that objects around the size of a usb or larger are the most optimal for scans. For objects that are smaller we may consider this open source 3D …