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2. Digital bodies

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Digital Bodies is the process of capturing the human body using digital tools such as 3D scanning, photogrammetry, and body-mapping software. It allows us to create accurate virtual models of ourselves that can be used for fashion, animation, virtual fitting, prototyping, or digital art.

What I Wanted to Learn

I wanted to understand how the body can be scanned, recreated, and edited in a digital environment, and how these digital models can be used for design and visualization.

What I Found

  1. Body Scanning Tools

There are different ways to capture a digital body:

•   Photogrammetry (taking many photos from all angles)
•   3D scanning apps like Polycam or ScandyPro
•   Depth cameras that capture shape and movement

Each method creates a 3D mesh of the body.

  1. Digital Clean-Up

After scanning, the model usually needs cleaning:

•   Removing noise and holes
•   Smoothing surfaces
•   Fixing the mesh

Software like Blender or Meshmixer is used to clean, repair, and reshape the scan.

  1. Body Editing & Mapping

The digital body can be:

•   Adjusted
•   Re-proportioned
•   Textured
•   Marked with measurements

This is useful for fashion design, virtual fittings, and garment testing.

  1. Uses of Digital Bodies

Digital bodies are helpful in:

•   Virtual fashion and avatars
•   Patternmaking and fitting tests
•   Animation and game characters
•   Virtual try-ons and XR spaces
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  2. remember to resize and optimize all your images. You will run out of space and the more data, the more servers, the more cooling systems and energy wasted :) make a choice at every image :) This image is optimised in size with resolution 72 and passed through tinypng for final optimisation.

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3D Models

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Dita's Gown by Francis Bitonti Studio on Sketchfab

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Fabrication files

  1. File: 3d modelling of mannequin ↩↩

  2. File: Laser cut sheets ↩↩