Scanning by Industry

tmac has been born out of need to scan surfaces for furniture. It is suitable for whole range of soft clothes like suede, fabric, silk, leather and bigger furniture pieces like sofas utilizes scan area the most where there are no visible tiles thanks to big scanning area. See Why Size Matters.

We have rendered tens of thousands of furniture renderings using tmac scanned surfaces.

Take a look at TMAC Samples. Take a look at some 3D furniture renderings using TMAC Scans. On these Renderings there are visible scans of meshes likes cane and wood too but also scanned stitches.

Wallpaper usual maximum width is around 110cm which makes it suitable for scanning in tmac. Coupled with fact that most wallpaper surfaces are tiled, it is possible to process these scans to be homogenous and keep the rich nuances.

See TMAC Samples page to have a look at wallpapers samples scanned. Even wallpapers with metallic or anisotropic properties scan quite well thanks to unique TMAC Software features for tile replicability while retaining texture movement.

Seamless tiling for wallpaper is done by determining tile size that usually ranges from small 5x5cm tiles to bigger even non square tiles. Then there are also wallpaper manufacturing techniques which makes them never tile and always unique.

We understand tiling and uniqueness of wallpaper and automatically choose correct method to do Seamless Tiling.

Fashion and clothing industry. While tmac is not directly targeted at this Industry, it is still possible to utilize it do to scans of smaller swatches.

It is important to keep in mind that tmac is a texture capture device and it requires Material Authoring after scanning. This makes it less suitable for bigger quantities of small swatches.

Detail and nuance of more zoomed in area (300mm) of tmac is high and can be comfortable to use in some cases.

More suitable option where tmac is utilized completely is scanning of whole pieces of clothing. This can be used for asset digitization.

With tmac scan area of 1,3 x 1,3 meter it is suitable to scan wooden planks and boards that are up to that size. Check TMAC Samples page to see scans of woods.

It is usual that there are longer wooden planks available especially for flooring. In this case texture stitching can be though of as a solution but we would discourage from that because of complexity.

Another problem is weight - wooden parts are heavy and pricy to ship.

That is also a reason why we are developing a mobile TMAC Linear that will be capable of scanning long planks on site.

Curtains, lace and other transparency dependant surfaces are suitable for scanning.

These surfaces can fully utilize underlit ScanTray which is capable of capturing nuanced transparency and produce Alpha map that is most important with these surfaces as it describes where objects is transparent and where it is solid.

Take a look at TMAC Samples Page to see lace and curtain examples.

VFX Industry can utilize scanning area of 1,3 x 1,3 meter and underlit ScanTray. This allow to capture planar flat props like pieces of clothes, bags and other objects.

There are many similar surfaces in interior automotive Industry that are shared with furniture.

All of these surfaces are suitable for scanning which means scanning is suitable for whole range of soft clothes like suede, fabric, silk, leather and also stitching.

Take a look at TMAC Samples. Take a look at some 3D furniture renderings using TMAC Scans.

On top of these there are specific surfaces for automotive Industry like meshes and solid Interior upholstery that can utilize tmac scanning area.

Carpaints are not suitable for scanning in tmac because of very sensitive color and high requirement on specular lobe capture sampling.

PBR shops and enterprises can utilize tmac scanning for all use cases mentioned on this page.

On top of that, it is possible to place many small planar objects on scan area to produce Atlases, or collages.

Take a look at TMAC Samples Page to see tray full of objects sample.

TMAC is not suitable for paintings and historical preservation digitization and scanning.