Bandicoot Imaging - Partners, Features and Compatibility

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Create digital fabrics, download and start working in any of the below tools, and many more.

Browzwear

With Browzwear, apparel companies are moving to true-to-life digital samples that remove productivity barriers, speed up time to market, and enhance sustainability.

CLO3D

CLO3D is changing the world with virtual garments. Create and alter true-to-life 3D garments so you can perfect your ideas before they go into production.

Adobe Substance

Adobe Substance 3D brings you an ecosystem of apps and content that empower you to design 3D. Texture assets and render your scenes intuitively.

Optitex

Optitex takes responsibility for the full product lifecycle and brings retailers and suppliers closer together – by forging the path for designers to connect to the production end.

Style3D

Style3D® stitches an ecosystem of software and services that enables fashion designers and enterprises to work with real time 3D simulation, surpassing their productivity, sustainability and creativity.

Virtual Touch

A digital fashion organisation with expertise in the manufacturing & 3D space helping brands & creators land unique collections in the metaverse.

Swatchbook

Intuitive, intelligently designed apps for material sourcing and management, exploration, design and visualization combined with real-time analytics that are fundamentally changing the way brands collaborate with their supply chain - anywhere, anytime, on any device.

Material Exchange

Marketplace for the responsible sourcing of materials and components for footwear and apparel. More flexibility and transparency, less complexity.

Unreal Engine

With Unreal Engine, you can bring amazing real-time experiences to life using the world’s most advanced real-time 3D creation tool.

Unity

The world’s leading platform for creating and operating interactive, real-time 3D (RT3D) content. Empowering creators. Across industries and around the world.

Blender

Blender is a public project hosted on blender.org, licensed as GNU GPL, owned by its contributors.
For that reason Blender is Free and Open Source software, forever.

Autodesk 3ds Max

3ds Max® professional 3D modeling, rendering, and animation software enables you to create expansive worlds and premium designs.

Autodesk Maya

Maya is a professional 3D software for creating realistic characters and blockbuster-worthy effects.

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Technical Specifications

A general overview of more technical things that are good to know before scanning

Compatible materials

A wide variety of glossy and matte materials are supported, including cotton, silk, velvet, satin, denim, leather, fabric prints, foil prints, lurex thread, lace and mesh

Incompatible materials

Avoid materials with long and thin features like fur, or mirror-like gloss such as sequins

Scan area

Single scan:
- From 150 x 85 millimetres
- Up to 0.9 x 0.5 metres

Stitched scans:
- Up to 3 x 3 metres

Scan resolution

120 - 640 DPI
(30 Mpx camera, depending on scan area)

Material thickness

Flat or largely flat materials

Software platform

Web app with cloud processing

Output Specifications

Details about what's coming out after your scan

Output PBR Textures

Base colour, normals, height, roughness, metallic, alpha

Texture size

4K (4096 x 2396 px)

Colour space

sRGB D65

Output File Formats

ZIP or U3M containing 8-bit PNG texture images

Input Specifications

Details about what needs to go into your scanning

Equipment required

24+ Mpx mirrorless or DSLR camera, prime lens, external on-camera flash, Bandicoot chart

Photography skills

Requires basic knowledge of photography, incl. setting of manual exposure. Training is provided by Bandicoot

Shooting format

RAW

Photos required

9 per scan (plain fabrics e.g. denim)

25 per scan (general fabrics)

Time required/scan

About 1 minute per scan with 9 photos, and about 4 minutes per scan with 25 photos (after training)

Shimmer View Specifications

Supported technologies, download size, and embedding

Supported browsers

All modern browsers

Browser technologies

JavaScript and WebGL

Supported devices

PC, Mac, iOS, Android

Viewer download size

5 - 10 MB per shimmer (2K resolution)

Shimmer file formats

3 x JPEG images and 1 x OBJ mesh

Embedding

JavaScript or React snippet (shimmer hosted by Bandicoot)

JavaScript or React module + Shimmer View files (self-hosted)