Palaeontologist: Dinosaur Footprints – Biomechanics – Simulation
I was involved in some fun research that was finally published last year, and I didn’t have chance to write blog posts for all of it, so here’s a summary of what came out of the Falkingham lab last year: The year started off with a paper led by collaborators at Brown. My simulation work... Continue Reading →
…And almost immediately put Windows on it. Then decided to be a bit more open minded and give it a whirl to try out the hardware and software. TLDR: I’m a windows guy, MacOS is smooth and nice, but a few differences give me a learning curve that I simply can't prioritise over my myriad... Continue Reading →
Last week, I had a trip down to Swansea to attend IBFEM-4i, or Image Based Finite Element Modelling – for industry. The title is a little of a misnomer, as the talks include any image-based modelling, and next year the conference name will be changing to that effect; IBSim-4i The conference itself started with two... Continue Reading →
Testing Autodesk ReCap Photo
Photogrammetry testing: Agisoft Metashape. Affordable and good, there's a reason this is the go-to software.
Testing 3DF Zephyr Pro
Photogrammetry Testing: Reality Capture [Disclosure: I asked Capturing Reality for a temporary license to access the full version so I could test it and export models, they kindly agreed and gave me a 1 month license. This in no way affects my review] Ok, let’s get this out of the way – Reality Capture is... Continue Reading →
New paper out today in Royal Society Interface, that I’m rather excited to be a co-author on. Led by Dr Kristen Crandell from Bangor University, and with her former undergrad Rowan Howe (I believe it start out as his undergrad project), the paper takes a look at how beak shape across kingfishers correlates with lifestyle.... Continue Reading →
This is something of a pre-series post, explaining that over the coming weeks I'll be reviewing commercial photogrammetry software.
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 no means comprehensive, but I’ve tried everything here to a reasonable degree. I’m not planning... Continue Reading →
Prof. Peter L. Falkingham 