Only Konica Minolta, the world's largest manufacturer of 3-D non-contact digitizing instruments, introduces the VIVID 9i. The most advanced and accurate of the VIVID line.

All VIVID products come with digitizing software that enables a user to select specific points on a target object to be viewed, modified, modeled, or scaled with ease. AND the VIVID supports a wide range of software systems including Alias Wave front/Maya, 3D Studio Max, Raindrop Germanic, Softimage, Lightwave, RapidForm 2000, VRML and more.

Hundreds of VIVIDS are being used in a wide variety of applications and industries:

Inspection - QA, First Article and Production Line Surface Measurement

Medical, Surgical & Dental - orthopedic, prosthetic, orthotics, maxillofacial, breast reconstruction

Industrial Design - for rapid prototyping, reverse engineering, CAD/CAM, 3-D modeling

Research - for analyzing 3-D data fields like human interfacing and robotic visioning, FEA and moldflow analysis

3-D Game Software Development - quickly and easily scan and digitize character models

Animation & Virtual Reality - create 3-D characters and environments for TV and movies

Education - for training, simulation, and digitizing design models

Architecture - design work at mock-up level

Archeological Restoration - anywhere in the world

Fashion and Textiles - for fitting clothes and determining dimensions

Museums - for 3-D archiving, cataloging, and taking inventory of collections