Tiger elephant.

[Mahnmut]

Yes, UponInfinity, I am pretty sure it really is a software for taming and painting Elephants! Finally!
I´ve been waiting so long!
Cheers,
J

[bigben]

Here's a preliminary test outdoors (FF or Chrome etc... will provide a 3D view)
http://www.123dapp.com/stl-Catch/South-lawn-carpark-entrance/795408

It would be interesting to try and recreate this with a mix of TG (fake rocks and trees objects) and reconstructed objects.

[TheBadger]

Hey Ben.

First, thats the nicest parking ramp I have ever seen.

And two; you said that you could increase the quality of the default mesh. Can you also edit it? I see in your example that you got a lot of extras in the mesh. can you open the mesh and delete that stuff out just like any mesh. Or is there anything unusual about this method?

Hopefully I will have time tonight to play with the Buddha you posted and answer my own question. But we'll see.

[Jo Kariboo]

Thanks bigben for your experimentation!

[bigben]

Hey Ben.

First, thats the nicest parking ramp I have ever seen.

And two; you said that you could increase the quality of the default mesh. Can you also edit it? I see in your example that you got a lot of extras in the mesh. can you open the mesh and delete that stuff out just like any mesh. Or is there anything unusual about this method?

Hopefully I will have time tonight to play with the Buddha you posted and answer my own question. But we'll see.

1: It's the back exit, but yes it's quite nice. It has the dubious honour of being the only carpark on Victoria's heritage registry and was used in the Mad Max film. http://www.pcs.unimelb.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/525810/Underground_Car_Park_and_South_Lawn_CMP.pdf The significance of it to the uni means it'll be a useful project for raising the profile of our experiments.

2: You can (and should) edit the mesh in 123D Catch.

You can select and delete unwanted parts of the mesh (AFTER you get your high res mesh), or when you go to change the mesh resolution, you select only the part of the mesh you want at high res and it discards the rest.  I'd recommend watching all of the videos on the 123D Catch site as they're very informative and helpful for using the program.  The manual alignment of images is also quite nicely done.

[TheBadger]

TY

[PabloMack]

oooo, there's a whole herd of them out there   
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-08-10/melbournes-cbd-overrun-by-baby-elephants/4191576

Reminds me of the City of Bath in England "The City of Decorated Pigs".

https://www.google.com/search?q=City+of+Bath+%22Decorated+Pigs%22&biw=1072&bih=544&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=UJQsUprGFabL2gWHsIFQ&ved=0CD0QsAQ

[bobbystahr]

oooo, there's a whole herd of them out there   
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-08-10/melbournes-cbd-overrun-by-baby-elephants/4191576

Reminds me of the City of Bath in England "The City of Decorated Pigs".

https://www.google.com/search?q=City+of+Bath+%22Decorated+Pigs%22&biw=1072&bih=544&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=UJQsUprGFabL2gWHsIFQ&ved=0CD0QsAQ

we have polar bears here all tarted up by artists

[bigben]

we have polar bears here all tarted up by artists

I was first thinking of artists undergoing rehab to learn how to make the most of their remaining limbs 

http://www.manitobaphotos.com/bears.htm?
Go on Bobby, you know you want to...

[inkydigit]

My Hometown Bristol had:
http://www.gromitunleashed.org.uk/

[Upon Infinity]

In Calgary, we did:

http://rocknartgallery.blogspot.ca/2011/01/calgary-cow-parade.html

naturally.

[kalwalt]

Hi to all here! I have experimented with skanect and reconstructme software using the microsft Kinect to scan a 3d model but i found very difficult to use. If you move too fast they crash and you have to remake all. Better if you scan a room, in this case it's diffficult that those crashing, but as my first idea was to use as a 3d scanner for my sculptures and i felt very bad within  those software. 123D catch is interesting i will give a try for sure and i will inform you. I found this topic very interesting @bigben, thank's for sharing it.

[bigben]

I've tried one of the early skanects just before we got our laser scanner. It sounds promising in theory but the resolution/noise is a limiting factor for render quality scans.  Given the price of the standard version of Photoscan I think it's a pretty good option (and if you're a student or work at a school, the educational price is irresistable). 123D Catch uses Acute3D as a back end but what you get through the cloud service is a cut down version of what that software is capable of.  I've reprocessed image sets that we had taken for 123D Catch and got much cleaner meshes at much higher resolutions. Full rooms however are not a subject for which photogrammetry is often not practical.

Some other tests I've run with Photoscan:
iPhone 4S and PureShot for dRAW TIFFs: https://sketchfab.com/models/4bb8f7abd0a84a36be37a81feb9732f2
Armillary sphere: https://sketchfab.com/models/2c10f162922a4f34b55607b91ff3745c (original mesh produced was 6 million faces from 50 million points) This was challenging given the thinness of the stucture and never worked well in Catch.

[Dune]

There's a Dutch shopping chain that offers 'selfies' in 3D, as an experiment. You get into a cubicle with a lot of camera's... flash, and you're printed at 30cm high. Cost you €60. I wish they would offer the 'object files' as well, for use in TG, that would be cool.

[bigben]

Ask them. I have one near me (http://www.3dneoveo.com.au/products/3dcustomfigurine) and when I asked they said that they will provide the files at no extra charge and will do a scan only service for half the price of a scan and print. They'll also do a torso only scan for a bit less.