The Inukshuk that inspired the creator of the Vancouver 2010 logo enters the virtual world.

Creaform has produced a short animated film featuring a full-size 3D scan model of the Inukshuk that served as inspiration to the creator of the logo for the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver.

Olympic fever has long been burning from coast to coast, and Creaform staff had it bad. Last December, a scanning team made the trip to Vancouver and paid a visit to the Inukshuk standing on English Bay, near Stanley Park, and scanned the entire 6-metre-tall stone statue using 2 of the VIUscan, the Handyscan 3D laser scanner that acquires both geometry and texture.

Jérôme Baillargeon, a member of the two-man scanning team, was impressed: “Only when I was a few...read later