Advantages and Limitations of the rotating stand setup

• Simple setup
  The rotating stand setup was designed in an attempt to make the process of capturing photographs of models with the simplest possible setup that individuals can create easily at home with some readily available parts. In essence it requires a digital camera, any kind of rotating disc or turn table which acts as the base stand for the model and a background screen which could be a cloth, a cardboard or any other appropriately painted background.
• Model covered from most angles
  By rotating the stand by 5-10 degrees between every photograph, the shape of the model is captured from all around it, giving IBModeler a fair amount of inputs to recreate it's shape in 3D.
• No calculations required on the part of the user
  This setup is very well integrated with IBModeler 2.0, so that the user only needs to do a few mouse clicks, while IBModeler does all the required calculations to find out the camera location and view direction for each of the photographs.

• Model not covered from all angles
  With the rotating setup, we are only able to supply photographs taken by moving all around the model in one horizontal plane. No photographs are taken from the top, bottom or other angles which might be critical in determining the shapes of specific parts of certain models. As a result, some shapes might not get replicated given the limited side only views.