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Light section

optical 3D measurement of a height profile along a projected line of light

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 9, 2025
Entity authorityQ1823498 ↗
Source-derived summary

The light section is a technology for optical 3D measurement, which makes the measurement of a height profile along a projected line of light. It is based on the principle of triangulation.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Light section” is optical 3D measurement of a height profile along a projected line of light. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Light, section and optical, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 32-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Light, section and optical is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “optical 3D measurement of a height profile along a projected line of light” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 9, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q1823498.

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This entry incorporates text from “Light section” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.