1. A method of constructing a topographic representation of at least a portion of an object; the method comprising: obtaining at least one photographic image of the object that includes photographic information wherein the object includes a flexible surface, a non-solid surface or combinations thereof; obtaining a structured light image of the object that includes structured light information; assessing quality in the structured light image to separate quality portions of the structured light image from other portions not suitable for further processing according to an image quality threshold; processing only the separated quality portions of the structured light image further to produce a quality thresholded structured light image; and constructing the topographic representation of at least the portion of the object using a combination of topographic information from the structured light image and topographic information from the photographic image, wherein said constructing includes replacing data from the photographic information with quality thresholded structured light information data.