ERGOTECH uses a Cyberware 3030RGB laser scanner mounted on a PS rotating platform for the capturing of three-dimensional form data of objects. During digitizing of an object, a safe, low-intensity (grade 1) laser is projected onto the object to create a highlighted profile. A high-quality video sensor captures this profile from two viewpoints. The system digitizes hundreds of these profiles in a few seconds to capture a three-dimensional (3D) replica of the object in space. Simultaneously, a second video sensor captures colour information of the object. The addition of colour information to 3D digitizing provides nearly all the information a graphics application requires to fully describe an object. In addition to enhancing realism in graphic models, colour denotes boundaries that are not obvious from shape alone. The digitized and colour data are transferred to a graphics workstation for immediate viewing and modification. An object (of a maximum size of W 300 mm x H 300 mm) can be digitized and displayed on the graphics workstation in less than half a minute. Digitized objects will have a spacial resolution of between 0,1 mm and 2 mm depending on object size, and can be exported in 3D studio, ASCII, dxf, iges (106, 124, 128), inventor, obj, ply, scr, stl and vrml file formats to be imported directly into a number of CAD or computer animation packages.