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Feature Requests / Manual Registration Points please in standard edition.

« on: August 19, 2014, 07:52:51 PM »

Hello,

I just got back from Siggraph and there were quite a few 3D Scanning companies at the show. One feature that many of these alternate scanning software packages had was the ability to add your own alignment points to each of the images and do a manual alignment before having the software compute its own solution.

Where this helps is if you are shooting with a single camera and you have a bunch of images that do not align.

On each image you would have the ability to add common points on each image. The more more manual points you add the better the manual alignment. Each shared point on each image would have a corresponding number. You could have as many points as needed to help with alignment.

I do this all the time with motion tracking software and it come in very handy as there are always instances where the computed alignment is never perfect.

Hopefully this feature could get added.

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Face and Body Scanning / Re: Here s my first attempt using PhotoScan and only a single camera

« on: March 15, 2014, 10:59:27 PM »

I am hoping to record a YouTube video of my ZBrush process but first I need to do some more tests to see if I can improve upon my single camera approach.

I am really considering in investing in a 12 camera system for recording heads. I will attach it to a simple rail system to take 3 series of pictures (36 in total). This way I can capture a complete head in a minimal amount of time.

Took pictures of my kids today. In the process of calculating. I will post more results.

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Face and Body Scanning / Re: Here s my first attempt using PhotoScan and only a single camera

« on: March 15, 2014, 12:37:35 AM »

Here are some images from another test

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Face and Body Scanning / Re: Here s my first attempt using PhotoScan and only a single camera

« on: March 14, 2014, 11:35:41 PM »

I take it into Zbrush.

I basically do the same thing every time. No sculpting, just zremesh, project, unwrap, project again, polish smooth through the subdivisions and a high pass texture deformation. Never once do I need to actually sculpt on the model to fix it.

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Face and Body Scanning / Re: Here s my first attempt using PhotoScan and only a single camera

« on: March 14, 2014, 05:58:36 PM »

I am using the mirrorless Nikon 1 V1 with the stock lens.

I will post some more results today. Since I am taking the pictures indoors without a lighting setup my settings are not ideal (roughly iso=1200, f4.5, 1/60) and the fact the someone has to stay very still for 30 seconds is not ideal.

I would prefer to be at ISO 100, f11, 1/150 to have a better chance at having sharper pictures.

It is amazing what you can achieve with a single camera without ideal lighting and setup conditions. I can only imagine what I could produce with a proper multi Camera rig.

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Face and Body Scanning / Re: Here s my first attempt using PhotoScan and only a single camera

« on: March 13, 2014, 03:19:32 AM »

@dclay70

I am using a Makerbot Replicator 2

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Face and Body Scanning / Here s my first attempt using PhotoScan and only a single camera

« on: March 07, 2014, 12:37:53 AM »

Here s my first attempt using PhotoScan and only a single camera bouncing the flash off of the ceiling.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=592176084198933&set=pb.317040675045810.-2207520000.1394141717.&type=3&theater