The Offi­cial Google Blog on the mak­ing of Radiohead’s lat­est music video; House of Cards:

In this new video, there were no cam­eras on set. Instead, two scan­ning tech­nolo­gies were used to cap­ture 3D images. Geo­met­ric Infor­mat­ics scan­ning sys­tems pro­duced struc­tured light to cap­ture 3D images at close prox­im­ity, while a Velo­dyne LIDAR sys­tem that uses mul­ti­ple lasers was used to cap­ture large envi­ron­ments such as land­scapes. In the video, 64 lasers rotat­ing and shoot­ing in a 360 degree radius 900 times per minute pro­duced all the exte­rior scenes.

The video and a mak­ing of doc­u­men­tary can be found on the video’s home­page: http://code.google.com/radiohead.

via kot­tke