This 3D model includes alignment errors……. and we know how to fix them. Our objective is to develop an automatic 3D model creation system, and we know from experience that the errors will get smaller as our calibration process is refined. Below is a description of how this model was made using images from Proto-4F…
The cameras are finally calibrated, and the communications and power systems are installed and working. Now I can finally begin producing scans to test and fine tune the software. Today I scanned part of the lab, and the animated GIF illustrates the 3D nature of the scan. When producing a 3D model, multiple perspectives must…
Our experience putting 3D models of buildings into Google Earth. We use Google SketchUp for modeling. Our examples are from Purcellville Virginia.
The Prototype-4.x family of 3D-360s is based on a camera that we have been developing for over a year. While several areas of enhancement are still left to be implemented, the new camera is ready to be compared against the Canon 5D. Prototype-3 used eight Canon 5Ds, and the new camera in Prototype-4 needs to…
We spent the last year designing and building a camera and software that can capture images with pixels that are 16-bits deep. It isn’t easy to view these images since most tools expect 8-bit images, so the following routine is used to squeeze the 65,536 values in the 16-bit image down to the 256 values…
I spend most of my day trying to make noise-free images, so it is no suprise that I am also interested in the opposite. Our new camera for Proto-4B can capture nearly 10 frames per second for hours. Now that we have the speed I need we will tune the exposure routines (next week’s work).