  Line laser scanners are a sub-type of structured light 3D scanners that are
relatively common devices to find within the industrial setting, typically in
the context of assembly, process control, and welding. Despite its extensive
use, scanning of some materials remain a difficult or even impossible task
without additional pre-processing. For instance, materials which are shiny, or
transparent. In this paper, we present a Blazer, a virtual line laser scanner
that, combined with physically based rendering, produces synthetic data with a
realistic light-matter interaction, and hence realistic appearance. This makes
it eligible for the use as a tool in the development of novel algorithms, and
in particular as a source of synthetic data for training of machine learning
models. Similar systems exist for synthetic RGB-D data generation, but to our
knowledge this the first publicly available implementation for synthetic line
laser data. We release this implementation under an open-source license to aid
further research on line laser scanners.
