[Updated on: Sat, 16 March 2013 13:20 UTC]

I really like the idea of these short contests, but here's a few buts for you

- I think they are a little too short, maybe announce them friday morning, deadline monday night? or saturday to friday? (on this one I can't even find the deadline)

- They are hard to follow either as a competitor or as a spectator. You could make it compulsory to reply to the forum post to enter (and make sure you have a link in the blog to the forum post).

- A related point, also for shapeways contests in general: make the tag you have to add one word and definitely unique, like "WeekendContest5" so you can use search and find the actual entries, not just a list of models that may have been tagged with "123d catch" or "wedding" months/years ago. You could then also show a link like http://www.shapeways.com/search/tag?tag=WeekendContest5 to make it even easier to follow.

that's it thanks for the inspiring contests,

Wouter

[Updated on: Mon, 18 March 2013 14:43 UTC]

@bartv: No worries. I really want to succeed with scanning from photos. It just hasn't yet worked for me in a method that is repeatable.
Here is an old scan that I did over a year ago:

As you can see, it requires a LOT of cleanup work yet.

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[Updated on: Mon, 18 March 2013 17:33 UTC]

Well this is my entry. 123D Catch has a learning curve but I am overall satisfied with the technology.

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Hey Bart, thanks a lot! My daughter will be pleased with her victory
I actually had the model printed already, so I can upload a few pics.
The first print was kind of ''bad'' so the nice people at Shapeways service had it reprinted (thanks guys you are awesome!).
Unfortunately, even though the reprint was an improvement, I remain underwhelmed by the result, especially color dispersion and resolution - plus the well-known ''icing'' effect of FCS. Maybe it's because of the small size of the print. I will be pursuing this further.
See what I mean:

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[Updated on: Mon, 18 March 2013 20:54 UTC]

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It arrived the 16th of February.

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And a final one.



I still believe that photo into 3d mesh technology, will be huge in the future.

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[Updated on: Tue, 19 March 2013 19:54 UTC]