Abstract: This invention provides a method to build a computer program project, The method includes using a GUI to select components; and linking at least two components via at least one exposed variable of each component. At least one component may be a previously built computer program project. This invention also provides a method to execute a computer program project. This method includes, during operation of an active component (Componenta), detecting a change in a Valuea of a Variablea and transferring from Componenta to a Project Variable Monitor the new Valuea of Variablea, a Variable Change Notification and a Remote Connections Table (RCT) of Variablea. The RCT stores a list of other components and their variables that were linked to Variablea during the creation of the computer program project.

Abstract: The present invention provides a system for illuminating an object with a special kind of structured light pattern, recording the shape of the reflected points of light by means of a camera, and, by a triangulation technique that does not depend on the fixed direction of the light source relative to the camera, reconstructing the 3D shape of the object through a computer using the data points collected from the reflection of the structured light pattern. The scanning system is portable and does not require data processing contemporaneous with the data collection. The portable system stores in the storage media several images of the objects with different illumination patterns. The data is subsequently processed, by a computer system which applies data processing routines, i.e., the model building algorithms which provide 3D surface generation.