Description
James Cameron made a movie in 3D, so it's only fair that Cameron Hall gets the same treatment - we're a little more deserving than a Pocohontas parable. Having a 3d representation of the clubs would be good to have for a variety of purposes, including but not limited to..
- A historical document for the Cameron Hall clubs in a tangible, graphical form
- An opportunity to mess with modern computer vision algorithms
- Vanity shots can be taken as those expensive DSLR cameras a number of UCCans own are shown off in a similarly vain manner
- Bragging rights - doing new things to keep us ahead of other historic clubs with electronic coke machines
- .. and if you're into that sort if thing, playing various PC games on a map of Cameron Hall - "Bomb has been planted!" as you flashbang unigames or "SPY AS UNISFAN" as a dispenser goes down
Techniques
The use of PhotoTour Bundler, CMVS and PMVS2 is (in that order) a workflow that can produce a dense point cloud. Compared to just a year ago, when Bundler and Photosynth produced camera positions and a sparse, low quality point cloud, this workflow can produce impressive results. CMVS splits photos into batches of a manageable size, PMVS then reconstructs those batches and the union of them is the end product.
MapTek, a Perth-based mining company, developed iSite, a LASER-based 3D scene detection technology. One model takes 70 megapixel panorama images along with the laser points, though is made for large scale surveys. Perhaps we could borrow something from their range.
Schedule
I (Chris) aim to test the Bundler->CMVS->PMVS2 workflow for usability on a small set of photos to be captured this week. From there, decisions and future happenings of the project can be planned.
The people
[TPG] tpg, John Hodge
[CJS] spartan, Chris Squire
- The poor souls who have to figure out the archaic data format many years from now, if it's timecapsuled
- .. and hopefully you
Stay tuned for updates!
