I for instance will be very gratefull.
Seems a very good proyect.

Desktop though ...
.. yours looks like an industrial-sized 3d scanner.
This is one of the most interesting topics ever to grace this site.

Gonna talk to some of the electronic engineering guys at the University to see how would they create such a device, if it´s under budget I´ll frigging build it. Nurbs patches are far easier to lay...

This surely sounds good.
I´ll be watching this thread´s development closely.