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    Roger
    last edited by 12 Sept 2012, 21:06

    Civil War field artillery

    I have been playing with 123d Catch and am somewhat intrigued by its possibilities. This started with a large set of photos of a 2 to 3 inch brass cannon model. I then exported an OBJ from 123D Catch and imported it into SU which almost choked on the file size. Then I applied some styles and composed my shot. From there I took it to PhotoShop to dust it with a little moodiness. Lastly I used FotoSketcher to add more textures and and profile lines.

    Lessons learned:

    • Always use flat light when making your photo sets.
    • Go for 40 to 70 photos.
    • Avoid deep shadows.
    • Use single focal length prime lenses.
    • Keep distance from camera to cent of object as close to the same as possible unless you want to do a lot of tedious manual photo stitching.
    • 123 can be used in a very impressionistic manner and under certain conditions it can be used for photogrametry.
    • It reveals its capabilities slowly

    http://www.azcreative.com

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      iichiversii
      last edited by 13 Sept 2012, 10:12

      Out of interest Rodger what was the file size? And did you consider using mesh lab to reduce the size? 👍

      Bring on the Rain...

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        Roger
        last edited by 13 Sept 2012, 15:57

        The model started out with 359,000 edges. I tried using the simplify tool in Artisan and it processed about 1/3rd of the file before choking. Meshlab crashes as soon as I try to open the file.

        I should have processed the file for mobile phone resolution right from the beginning to start with a smaller file.

        What I have been doing is identifying key points of the model and ripping out overly complex mesh and replacing it with flat surfaces.

        http://www.azcreative.com

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