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Figure 8.40. (a) An entire small town outdoor set created for Thor containing many buildings
was LiDAR-scanned frommultiple locations. (b) A structured-light scan of a prop helmet for Thor .
(c) A phase-based LiDAR scan of an armored military vehicle for Fast Five . (d) A laser-stripe scan
of actor Darren Kendrick in the Sentry Frost Giant makeup and costume for Thor . Thor images
appear courtesy of Marvel Studios, TM & ©2011 Marvel and Subs. www.marvel.com . Fast Five
courtesy of Universal Studios Licensing LLC.
the data. For example, in themovie 2012 , Sony constructed a five-story door of a huge
ship, but the entire remaining vessel had to be 3Dmodeled and composited tomatch
filmof the actors standing on this door set. The visual effects designers at ImageWorks
knew that the LiDAR data we took of this model would precisely match the camera