Can agisoft generate something like this?

[Fernandoker]

https://www.melown.com/maps/index.html#pantheon_paris

[Wishgranter]

i have the Paris dataset,  will reconstruct it in few day as my PC is "free" .  but the difference will be not so big from initial small part tests. they just use very good web presentation. stay tuned :-D

[bigben]

I have the animation version of Terragen which was the program used for this: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qObATYOSwlM
I'm not doing aerial work but it will be fun to get some buildings

[bmc130]

are they using agisoft bigben? looks cool!

[bigben]

Acute 3D. From memory I think the data was scaled down to a 2Gb model for rendering (didn't ask for the total texture size) I'm looking forward to incorporating something into an animation but I still have a bit more to learn.

[alsene]

This one looks good too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BehxAWT8Gs8
Are you sure Aerometrex use Acute3D?

[FoodMan]

looks like they used Acute3D ..

[Wishgranter]

testing accute right now, but its not a life saver... probably will publish something on this later. in short for gis, acceptable, for body and other stuff for now unusable... too low resolution of mesh.....  AGI have much better results.....

[alsene]

I've heard Acute is used by Autodesk Recap360 to produce hires meshes. They probably decimate
their results to much in their own product because it is GIS oriented. I don't know how they produced
this http://www.acute3d.com/cultural-heritage/ (result here: http://www.acute3d.com/s3c-samples/)

[bigben]

I've heard Acute is used by Autodesk Recap360 to produce hires meshes. They probably decimate
their results to much in their own product because it is GIS oriented. I don't know how they produced
this http://www.acute3d.com/cultural-heritage/ (result here: http://www.acute3d.com/s3c-samples/)

It may be more to do with practicalities of offering a free cloud service. Generic settings will have varying results for different subjects. I've had good models but also got a two-headed elephant sculpture.

[bigben]

Reprocessing some of my early projects from 123D Catch in PS. No contest there. Medium quality point cloud in PS is probably better. I started with high quality and the difference is staggering.

[alsene]

Reprocessing some of my early projects from 123D Catch in PS. No contest there. Medium quality point cloud in PS is probably better. I started with high quality and the difference is staggering.

Recap 360 is like 123D Catch but with highest resolution settings. Maybe you should give it a try.
It was still free some months ago but I am not sure whether it is still free or not...

[bigben]

You need a subscription account for ultra resolution. Free only gives you preview resolution.  Reprocessing an old project anyway to compare with the Catch result (and running it through PS as well). 

I've been getting some interesting results processing images from older projects taken to texture laser scans in ZBrush. Giving our NextEngine a run for its money, with both the quality of objects and the workflow/interface.

[bmc130]

bigben, what exactly do you mean by, taken to texture laser scans in ZBrush? Sounds interesting:)

[bigben]

Scanned a death mask with the NextEngine. It's textures are crap so we took photos from multiple angles as well, loaded the model into ZBrush and tried to paint the texture on. It looked good but it wasn't easy, I'm a photographer not an illustrator   

The NextEngine doesn't create a new texture map, the obj export uses the jpegs captured with each scan and each face maps to a portion of one of those images. No blending.

Loaded the jpegs I shot into PS and masked out the pillow it was resting on. Didn't have enough overlap behind the ears but the rest of the model from PS looked better than the laser scan. Scanning and stitching with the NextEngine took 5hrs which was a lot of work. At least with long processing times in PS you can go off and do other things.