Software list:

• 123D Catch (Autodesk)
• PhotoScan (Agisoft)
• Photomodeller, Bundler
• Visual SFM
• Photosynth (Microsoft)
• Acutrans 3D
• Zsurf

Printrbot: Your First 3D Printer (Kickstarter).

Flash

Open Source

3D Modeler

http://www.19.5degs.com/3d.php

Sandy is an intuitive and user-friendly 3D open-source library developed in Actionscript 2.0 and now Actionscript 3.0 for Adobe Flash.

http://www.flashsandy.org/blog/

PaperVision3D – Open Source realtime 3D engine for Flash

http://blog.papervision3d.org/

Tutorial: http://rozengain.com/?postid=28&replyto=2296

Away3D – Open Source realtime 3D engine for Flash

http://www.away3d.com/

Commercial

Kaon’s vSpace™ – From lightweight web 3D product tours, to stills and videos for Flash applications, extraordinary PowerPoint presentations, and now 3D PDFs, vSpace tools make interactive solutions possible for everyone.

http://www.kaon.com/software/swindex.html

Google Earth Extension for AutoCAD (publish your 3D models from AutoCAD directly into Google Earth)

http://labs.autodesk.com/utilities/google_earth_extension_beta/

Content creation programs which support Collada

https://collada.org/mediawiki/index.php/Portal:Products_directory

Where to find Collada plugins: http://www.terathon.com/wiki/index.php?title=Collada_Plugins
SketchUp (you’ll have to unzip the .kmz file to find the .dae inside)
Blender 3D
Truespace
DX studio
Photoshop CS3 Plugin
AutoCAD 2008
3D Studio Max
Maya

Swift3D (Flash only)

http://www.terathon.com/wiki/index.php?title=Collada_Plugins

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Xiaolin Wei and Jinxiang Chai developed a program that tracks human bodies in videos to create animated 3D models (which can then be viewed from any angle). It will be presented at Siggraph in Los Angeles.

Download a PDF or download the video.

Via New Scientist.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install wine1.2
wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks
sh winetricks vcrun2005
sh winetricks d3dx9
wine regedit

• under HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Wine, create key Direct3D if it doesn’t already exist
• inside Direct3D create the following values:
  • string: DirectDrawRenderer value: opengl
  • string: OffscreenRenderingMode value: fbo
  • string: RenderTargetLockMode value: auto
  • string: UseGLSL value: readtex
  • string: VideoMemorySize value: (video card memory size in MB)

There is lot’s of different cheap design for building your own 3D scanner, here are a few:

• SCAN Z do-it-yourself 3D scanner
• Building a Homemade Laser Line Scanner (CS6998, Spring ’01)
• Build Your Own 3D Scanner: Optical Triangulation for Beginners
• Scanalicious: A 3D Scanner GUI Client and Micro-controller Software
• 3-D Laser Scanner
• Scanalicious: A 3D Scanner for You and Me
• 3D Scannerless Scanning for Fabbers
• Splinescan: Open Source 3D Scanning
• NXT™ 3D scanner
• DAVID-laserscanner: Low-Cost 3D Scanner for Everyone!
• stripo-3DSCAN Light
• Structured Light 3D Scanning
• Milkscanner: Displacement Mapping
• Using Meshlab to Clean and Assemble 3D Scan Data
• Build your own 3D scanner
• 3D Photography on your desk/li>
• Build Your Own 3D Scanner: Optical Triangulation for Beginners/li>
• Project DASER: Introduction/li>

Mcor’s 3D printeruses plain 8 x11 paper and glue for rapid prototyping . “The printer takes standard sheets of printer paper (A4 size) and deposits regular old PVA glue in a pattern determined by the design. Another sheet of paper is added, and a tungsten carbide blade cuts away the excess paper…”
Source: Wired & hackaday.com .