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Last year Kim Phan, a clothing designer in Manhattan, decided she wanted a miniature version of herself. She wore a print dress from her label, Yumi Kim, and proceeded to a branch of Doob, where she stepped into a walled room — the “Dooblicator” — fitted with 54 cameras. The cameras captured her from every angle, and then Ms. Phan stepped out and reviewed the image on a monitor.

“I wanted it to be a motion shot,” she said. “I told them, ‘I want you to capture my dress flying.’”

Using a process called photogrammetry, a technology also employed by the film and video game industry, Doob converted the 2-dimensional image of her into a high-resolution 3-D file. Then, through 3-D printing, a resin polymer figurine is produced.

Michael Anderson, the C.E.O. of DoobUSA, a company that uses a process called photogrammetry to convert 2-D images into a high-resolution 3-D file.CreditPeter Garritano for The New York Times

Ms. Phan was immensely pleased with the result. “You’re able to have your own real-life Barbie,” she said. “It’s actually you.” Later, she returned with her fiancé and had a figurine made of herself jumping onto his back, which she keeps on her desk at home.

You can also see copies of Ms. Phan’s figurines at a Doob store in SoHo (there’s another branch on the Upper East Side, and stores in Los Angeles, San Francisco and elsewhere), along with dozens of other samples, ranging in size from four inches tall (the Buddy, $95) to 14 inches tall (the Diva, $695).

How else to describe a Lilliputian rendition of a photograph that’s so realistically detailed, one subject called it “creepily accurate”? A personal action figure? Mini-Me, like the character in the Austin Powers movies?

Getting doobed involves stepping into a room within the store fitted with 56 cameras. The cameras capture the doob-ee from nearly every angle.CreditPeter Garritano for The New York Times

“People use the term ‘3-D selfie’ a lot. It really isn’t that,” said Michael Anderson, the chief executive of Doob USA. “We refer to them as 3-D-printed replicas.”

Doob, which was founded five years ago and whose headquarters are in Düsseldorf, Germany, is betting big that people want to see themselves made small: smiling alone; hugging their spouses in an eerily perfected version of the old wedding-cake topper; astride a Harley-Davidson, tattooed arms naked to the wind. Whether you consider them cute or creepy, they are perhaps the most currently relatable example of the much buzzed-about, yet perplexing, 3-D printing.

To visit the SoHo store and be in the presence of so many real New Yorkers looking exactly like they do on the city’s streets, only shrunken and displayed on tables and shelves, is, initially, surreal. You have stepped into some version of the new Alexander Payne movie, “Downsizing,” or that old Lily Tomlin-Charles Grodin flick “The Incredible Shrinking Woman.”

Ashley Holt, a custom cake maker in Brooklyn, had a doob made of herself posing mouth wide open, midbite.CreditPeter Garritano for The New York Times

One 10-inch figurine of a man dressed fashionably in a tan blazer, scarf and black-frame architect’s glasses, his dog lying obediently at his feet, was so lifelike that it captures his expression of self-satisfaction.

“All that detail is integral,” Mr. Anderson said. “If it’s you, but it’s small and blurry, it’s just a trinket. But sometimes, on the larger figures, you can see the time on a person’s watch.”

The more thought given to one’s appearance before the doobing process, the better the results, generally. Patterns and contrasting colors show up well, for instance. And a good pose can capture the inner you.

One family gathered three generations together for a group doob. A musician stood knees bent, blowing his horn. Then there’s the bodybuilder who took his shirt off, showing his waxed six-pack abs.

Heather Stern first got doobed in 2014, when she was eight months pregnant with her daughter, Rosie. She has celebrated Rosie’s birthday every year since by getting doobed together. The naturalistic figures have made her think about “the toys we give to our daughters,” Ms. Stern said, like American Girl dolls.

“For your daughter to have an image of a normal female body is a positive thing,” she said.

But what to do with a doob? They aren’t sturdy enough to play with. Displaying them in your house or office may seem narcissistic. Ms. Stern keeps her doobs on a bookshelf at home with the Legos she builds (she is a mechanical engineer), though “it’s not like a centerpiece of the house,” she said.

She added: “People are shocked by it: ‘Oh my God, that’s amazing, what is it?’”

One fitting use is to advance the self-referential digital culture from which doobs sprung. That’s what Ashley Holt did. A custom cake maker in Brooklyn, Ms. Holt had a doob made of herself posing mouth wide open, midbite. After she received the finished figurine, which takes about two to three weeks, she made a cake in the form of a peach. Then she posed her doob with the cake, took a picture and posted it to Instagram — “to make it look like a tiny little person eating a giant peach,” Ms. Holt said. “I wanted to bring a doob into a cake design, rather than the standard cake topper.”

For a finale, Ms. Holt returned to the Doob store weeks later and got a doob of herself holding her tiny cake-eating doob.

“I was wearing the same outfit,” she said. “They call that a ‘Meta Doob.’”