During the last years the programs and applications that can produce 3D models using low-cost methods have become very popular. What is more, they can be successfully competitive with the classical methods. The most well-known and applied so far technology used to create 3D models is laser scanning. However, it is still expensive because of the price of the device and software. That is why the universality and accessibility of this method is very limited. Hence, the new low cost methods of obtaining the data needed to build 3D models appeared on the market. Creating 3D models becomes much easier and accessible to a wider group of people. One of the methods uses digital photos to create 3D models. Available software allows us to create a model and object geometry. Kinect Sensor, which is also very popular in the gaming environment device, can be successfully used as a different method to create 3D models. This article presents different devices and applications, which are commonly used in our life, and which can be used to create a 3D model. The results are compared with the model derived from the laser scanning. The possible applications and graphic presentations are also presented in this paper.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3846/enviro.2017.180