604 Scans

etienne — Sun, 02 Jun 2024 21:51:15 +0000

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24-hours a day, Matterport can elevate your property marketing with an official 3D Matterport scan; Whether its for real estate, short or long term rentals or for business uses like construction and retail, discounted floorplans and Mattertags are also available!

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In 2024, 604 Scans is your preferred Matterport provider, with over 600,000 square feet scanned and to celebrate, we are offering an UNBEATABLE $125 Matterport 3D scan for Small retail/condos!* (*Limited time offer, when purchased with a basic photo package)

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Ashley Casali

– 145 w 41st, Vancouver –

$1,350,000

James McKenny

Welcome to this beautiful 2 bedroom and Den at Woodstock at Oakridge, perfect home for growing families and downsizing couples. Developed by Nexst Properties. Architecture by DYS Architects. Interior design by Cynthia Florano Designs.

Woodstock at Oakridge focuses on modern, functional and well thought-out design throughout. With clear glass, wood grain, and a minimalistic finishing palette, these airy, family oriented units are enhances natural daylight. Access to roof top patios, outdoor kids play area, and private outdoor spaces provide countless options for living, playing and entertaining.

Nearby parks are Queen Elizabeth Park, Riley Park, Cartier Park, MacDonald Park and Tisdall Park. Schools nearby are Sir William Van Horne Elementary, British Columbia Conservatory of Music – School, John Oliver Secondary School, Annie B. Jamieson Elementary School, Forget-Me-Not Montessori School, St. Andrew’s Elementary School, Langara College, UCMAS Abacus & Mental Math School, Teleios Bible School and Sir Alexander Mackenzie Elementary. Grocery stores and supermarkets nearby are Punjab Food Center, Buy-Low Foods, Fruiticana, Garden Fresh Food & Grocery, East West Market, Oakridge Fish Market, Kin’s Farm Market, Tindahan Ni Kuyang Grocery Store, Persia Foods Produce Markets, Tops Market and Safeway Oakridge. Close to Oakridge 41st Avenue subway station and Oakridge Centre shopping mall.

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Matterport 3D scans have arrived!

etienne — Wed, 13 Oct 2021 03:16:48 +0000

604 Scans is officially joining the Matterport revolution and to celebrate, we are offering an UNBEATABLE $125 Matterport 3D scan for Small retail/condos! (Limited time offer, when purchased with a basic photo package $150)

Elevate your property marketing with an official 3D Matterport scan; pandemic restrictions have changed real estate and open houses, your time is valuable! Give clients and buyers a truly interactive and complete virtual tour for 40% off rack rates! HDR photos and floorplans are also available as discounted add-ons! Contact us by form here or email at 604scans@gmail.com

3DScan Spotlight – Statues/Art

etienne — Wed, 30 Oct 2019 20:05:47 +0000

Fun fact: The first object we scanned in early 2013 was a statue, so today were going to look back at our favorite statue/art scans from the last 7 years!

Some of best examples we have from those early days were of Thai origin; there is something about the aged materials and the details employed on so many piece that make for a great scan. One of the ones we brought back from Thailand was this great metallic Buddha head:

Since then we have worked closely with Spirithouse to scan several more Thai objects and carvings, as well as other pacific nation artifacts:

Laughing Statue by 604scans on Sketchfab

When artist Ivan Eyre’s Birdwrap statue made its residency in Vancouver, I made a point to scan this amazing work and the results were excellent! The embedded model bellow is greatly reduced in size to 14k polygons:

Ivan Eyre’s Bird Wrap by 604scans on Sketchfab

The first native art we scanned was Susan Point’s Welcome Gateway permanently installed in Stanley Park:

One of the most challenging exterior scans would have to be Abraham Anghik’s Spirits in the landscape, commissioned by BC Gas and permanently installed at 1111 West Georgia in Vancouver.

Spirits in the landscape

3DScan Spotlight – Totem

etienne — Tue, 29 Oct 2019 21:30:30 +0000

While many of our scans are captured in the controlled comfort of a well-lit studios, there are times where you need to capture something onsite. Such is the totem at the front entrance of Lu’ma Native Housing Society on Nanaimo in Vancouver BC. Incorporated in 1980, the Society was initially incorporated to provide affordable housing to Aboriginal families and individuals with low to moderate income, currently operating just under 500 units of affordable housing

Expertly crafted by Nisga’a artist Mike Dangeli, the totems were officially unveiled on October 25th 2013 and have weathered the elements rather well since then, as they often do. After getting permission, I found an ideal cloudy day and in the middle of the day, with traffic zooming by at one of east Vancouver’s busiest intersections, I captured the left totem in about 15min (Both totems are nearly identical)

The 114 source images needed some processing even before getting into the compiler, at which point the background of each image had to be masked out to avoid unnecessary data points. The first compile level generated nearly 71 million points in the dense point cloud, which in turn created a 2,887,088 polygon mesh.

The process from 114 source images to polygon mesh

The 114 source images needed some processing even before getting into the compiler, at which point the background in each image had to be masked out to avoid unnecessary data points.

The resulting textured model was simply beautiful, capturing the most subtle carving details and wood grains. Special thanks to the administrative staff of LNHS!

Homes gone past – Turtlehead Road

etienne — Mon, 28 Oct 2019 00:08:09 +0000

When you work in real estate, you may see so many properties that you eventually get a bit numb to it all; the features, the views, the locations. But once in a while, you find something special so kicking off a new 604 Scans feature “Homes Gone Past”, we will look at 135 Turtlehead Road in Port Moody/Belcarra.

“The Twin Princes”

Stunning location and setting, within distance of Vancouver

That was the nickname the locals gave the twin 70s waterfront homes on Turtlehead Road, which were built at the same time, mere feet from each other, something that would spell trouble nearly 50 years later…

My path would cross the Twin Princes in the summer of 2015 when I was tasked with capturing the southern prince for an estate sale. The location wasn’t great for those without a car, in fact it featured one of the lowest “walk score” Ive ever seen at a whopping 3/100 but then again, that was part of the charm of this exclusive area. While only 40min from downtown Vancouver, the Belcarra Peninsula home was nested on a quiet and isolated North Shore of Port Moody. Perched above the entrance to Indian Arm, the many outdoor areas featured jaw dropping views of Deep Cove and the mountains, as well as a gorgeous pool carved into the cliff side and water access.

The interior was a mish-mash of updated touches while harking back to its 70’s roots, including a ridiculously spacious layout that only yielded 2bed/3bath! On my first walk-through I remembered thinking “I Could live here” and it took a lot to impress me, and really, everyone has their preferences.

It went on to be sold in March of 2016 and I always wondered who the lucky person was… Did they appreciate it? Love it? Was it rented out? Left vacant as an investment? Soon enough the princes faded from my memory, to be replaced by scores of other properties, as the downturn of late 2016 prompted many to sell.

But when in April 9th 2017, I heard about flames consuming a hilllside in the area, my heart sank… A small electrical fire had ignited in the basement suite of the Northern Prince. The geography made putting it out virtually impossible without a firefighting vessel, which was being used on the other side of lower mainland. Soon the blaze spread to the Southern Prince and both buildings were lost…

CTV News Report on the fire:

Strange to form an attachment to a property I didn’t even own or even lived in but during my afternoon there, it felt like home.

As of 2018, the site is bulldozed flat, the mystery is what will become of it? The houses, along with the memories, are fading and gone, while the land is reclaimed by nature…

3DScan Spotlight – Props

etienne — Mon, 30 Sep 2019 21:04:38 +0000

One of the main advantages of 3d scanning is the relatively quick creation of props, something that can make filling a 3d scene VERY expensive. When we can cut down the modelling time by a factor of 10, especially for complex objects, the choice is simple.

3DScan Spotlight – Clothing

etienne — Mon, 30 Sep 2019 20:30:34 +0000

One of the many clothing scans performed at Microsoft turned out to be one of the best uses for Photogrammetry. The time saved on clothing skins proved to be very valuable to several projects!

3DScan Spotlight – Sports

etienne — Mon, 30 Sep 2019 20:12:22 +0000

Now that the cat is out of bag and NDA is expired, here are some sports-related scans from 2015’s Capcom prop sessions

Old baseball, scan available for sale at CG Trader

Barcelona game ball

Old and worn volleyball

This old soccer ball got kicked around a schoolyard for 6 years before being scanned

3DScan Spotlight – Food

etienne — Mon, 02 Sep 2019 21:07:45 +0000

One of our largest contracts of 2017 was for a kitchen scene in a photorealistic animation for VFX house Hydraulx. The fruits, veggies and carbs we captured that summer were used in several shots, from background objects to closeups.

6 unique bagels

Buns, baguette and croissant

Root vegetables

3DScan Spotlight – SAM

etienne — Mon, 29 Apr 2019 21:36:23 +0000

Today were going to expand on our look back at Disguise; our collaboration with The Seattle Art Museum.

I was first contacted last year by a SAM representative regarding the potential use of photogrammetry and color 3D printing to bring the public closer than ever to priceless artifacts in a major summer exhibition. The project turned out to be ‘Disguise’, a summer exhibition examining the role of masks in ancient cultures. Through 3d scanning and printing, the goal was to allow visitors to touch and feel some masks, some had never been displayed in public .

The first task was to handbuild a custom turntable to accommodate the artifacts, which ranged in size from 7″ to 4 feet long. We also assembled a rig of low-heat lighting to eliminate any risk of damaging the pieces.

Custom Turntable Built in Seattle

Low-heat Kino-Flo lighting rig

Some of the masks were extremely delicate, which made the process quite challenging but the team persevered and everything was scanned within the allotted time booked with the pieces.

SAM’s studio space

Once the data was secured, there were a few weeks of solid weeks of processing ahead. The project required the highest possible detail level and we pushed the tools to the limit and in a few cases, beyond their limits.

The first raw scan processed

Everything went fairly smoothly on the processing side but the relatively new color 3D printing process brought along several challenges before we ended up with the results we wanted.

The masks presented as 3D renders

In the end, we delivered 12 replicas of the masks at a stunning level of detail, on time. Disguise was an amazing project to be involved with and we are always looking forward to more projects with Museums. The exhibition wrapped in early September, after a wildly successful late summer run.