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The scanner we're utilizing with our current project is a Cyberware scanner. It scans at a phenomenally high resolution and simultaneously captures texture map information in 24 bit color. It has an AI program built into it, so it will then reduce the polygon count by up to 99%, giving you a completely optimized mesh that couldn't be created as well regardless of who your modeller was. Scanning a 3 foot object takes all of 20 seconds including a complete texture map. It uses different lasers simultaneously, one for object mesh and the other for color. Including running the optimization software it takes approximately 30 minutes from start to finish to scan virtually any object. We just finished scanning human heads and the scanner does such a phenomenal job with texture mapping that it even picks up facial hair that your razor missed. As to winning or losing jobs, we did a test scanning a model that took 3 weeks to build by hand without texture mapping. To produce a better model with the scanner including texture mapping and mesh optimization took 14 minutes. You can pick up one yourself for around $115,000 including computer controlled platform. Or if you have an object you want scanned, we'll work out a price for you.<G> Did I mention that you still need to buy the SGI workstation to hook it to? Paul