Scanning Elite Swimmers
Hundreds of elite athletes' heads scanned to design caps and goggles around real anatomy rather than average sizes.
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01 · Brief
Adidas wanted caps that reduce drag and goggles that do not leak, across the real range of head sizes, hair volume and face shapes. That takes measured data from many athletes, not a sizing assumption.
02 · Toolbox
- Close-range 3D body scanning
- Statistical shape analysis
03 · On location
Poolside and in the studio, scanning athlete after athlete, mapping the head and the anatomy around the eyes and brow.
04 · Result
Statistical datasets that informed size ranges and adaptive shapes for caps and goggles, turning approximation into precision.
- Head scan datasets
- Statistical shape data
athletes scanned
exact athlete count
scan resolution
products informed
TODO marks 3 figures still to come from Kittiwake. Listed in docs/gaps.md.
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