System and method for capturing, processing and rendering data through a template-driven processing pipeline

A method comprising:

• scanning the 3D object on a hand-held portable computing device;
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• acquiring time-stamped depth data, color data, and inertial measurement data associated with said 3D object scan on the hand-held portable computing device;
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• generating a real-time progressive 3D mesh-based object on the hand-held portable computing device using a set of template-driven processing pipelines comprising multiple, separate processor computing workers and circular buffer data structure thread-safe system channels;
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• enqueuing data from each computing worker to a circular ring buffer data structure, the data to be subsequently dequeued by a separate computing worker, and then processed by said separate computing worker, and then enqueued to circular ring buffer data structure.

A non-transitory processor-readable medium storing code representing instructions to be executed by computing processors housed within a hand-held portable computing device which causes the processor to:

• scan a 3D object;
• acquire depth data, color frame data, and inertial measurement data with respect to the 3D object;
• generate a progressive, real-time 3D mesh-based model of the 3D object with a computing processor using the depth data, color frame data, and inertial measurement data, and using code to enqueue data from processor computing workers to a circular ring buffer data structure, and using code to dequeue data from the circular ring buffer data structure by processor computing workers;
• save a 3D mesh-based model of the 3D object to a digital file;
• communicate the digital file to a second computing device;
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• display the progressive 3D mesh-based model on the computing device.