Introduction, Scope of Work and Summary of Results

The possibility to capture arbitrarily formed object surfaces in space in its full, three-dimensional shape, has become omnipresent. Although 3D measurement techniques have been used for many years in industry, medicine, forensics, or art, they have only recently found their way into public awareness—not least because of the introduction of 3D printers and the steadily increasing computing power of personal computers. The latter facilitated the large scale marketing of ‘virtual reality’ (VR) currently taking place.