Continuing a common theme of this blog – free or cheap software for scientific purposes, I thought I’d give a quick run-down of the free software available for segmenting CT data into digital models (e.g. objs/stls). This list is by … Continue reading Free software for CT segmentation (2019)
I get a lot of contacts asking what’s wrong with their software, and usually the answer is that the photos don’t have good overlap, or differing backgrounds. Sometimes I get directly asked how to take the photos, and certainly my … Continue reading Small object photogrammetry – how to take photos
You can listen to the programme here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3cswvxr A few months ago, I was contacted about a program on the BBC world service – CrowdScience. I was asked a few things about what I work on, and answered some questions … Continue reading A day out looking for footprints with the BBC
I previously gave you a little script that can run AliceVision MeshRoom from the command line, speeding things up when you have a lot of photos. However, I rely on some of the parameters being changed, specifically I like to … Continue reading Changing default values in AliceVision Meshroom
Here’s a script to reduce the processing of AliceVision’s Meshroom to a single double click. Much as I did for COLMAP, (and here) I’ve put together a batch file that can just be dropped into a folder of photos and … Continue reading Batch Script for running AliceVision MeshRoom from command line
I bought myself a Surface Go (8Gb/128Gb) a few weeks ago, and I’ve had it long enough now to pass judgment. As I noted in my ‘hardware I use’ post, I was previously using a Surface Pro 3, until I … Continue reading Surface Go – A near perfect companion device
AliceVision’s Meshroom was made available as a windows binary not long ago – I wrote about it shortly after it was released and produced a model using my standard test set using default settings. Since then, it’s become my go-to … Continue reading Getting the most out of AliceVision Meshroom – tweaking parameters
