{"id":2918,"date":"1999-12-24T19:25:00","date_gmt":"1999-12-24T19:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mapflaps.com\/?p=2918"},"modified":"2025-04-09T08:08:53","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T08:08:53","slug":"3d-scanning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mapflaps.com\/?p=2918","title":{"rendered":"3D Scanning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Working with various 3D scanning techniques including Photogrammetry, Kinect, Laser point clouds.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-visual-portfolio alignwide\">\n<div class=\"vp-portfolio vp-uid-c87f7493 vp-id-25wXOB\"\n\tdata-vp-layout=\"slider\" data-vp-content-source=\"images\" data-vp-items-style=\"emerge\" data-vp-items-click-action=\"popup_gallery\" data-vp-items-gap=\"15\" data-vp-items-gap-vertical=\"\" data-vp-pagination=\"load-more\" data-vp-next-page-url=\"\" data-vp-slider-effect=\"slide\" data-vp-slider-items-height=\"80%\" data-vp-slider-items-min-height=\"\" data-vp-slider-slides-per-view=\"3\" data-vp-slider-speed=\"0.3\" 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