The question is a common one, but one that has a great answer and covers fascinating and exciting technologies like laser scanning and photogrammetry among others. It used to be called Reality Capture but now contains far more than just the capture of existing geometry. The Autodesk Reality Computing Team has posted a nice intro 101 on what Reality Computing is as part 1 of a 7 part series. An Introduction to Reality Computing - Part 1Go to the original post...