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Author Sherry L. Baranek
Source Time Compression Technologies. v7 n5 Sept., 2002, pp 8-11
Abstract With the assistance of a measuring system, photogrammetry and optical scanning, Ford was able to greatly reduce its design to manufacturing cycle for the new GT40 concept. Henry Ford II's goal was to change performance car history - and he did. The Ford GT40 car beat the world's best in endurance racing, placing first, second and third at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1966 and winning the next three consecutive years. Ford's new GT40 concept car was created to celebrate that great era in history. Initially, two separate versions of the new Ford GT40 concept car were designed and sculpted in clay. The process of obtaining complete 3-D data on the clay models involved a two-step process: photogrammetry and optical scanning. The photogrammetry process establishes proper coordinate position and a reference grid right on the model itself while the optical scanning process captures the detailed surface data of the model and aligns each patch based on the reference grid produced from photogrammetry. XX
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