Point clouds
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In this previous post I showed some code which uploads photos to Photofly and pulls down and imports the resultant point cloud into AutoCAD 2011. The application relies on a special executable from the Photofly team which was built from code extracted from Photo Scene Editor that uploads photos to Photofly and asks for them […]
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I've been looking at (and talking about) point clouds a lot, of late, especially those generated from sets of 2D photos. Today's announcement by Scott Sheppard refers to a new technology on Autodesk Labs that makes it even easier to work with and model using point clouds, Shape Extraction for AutoCAD 2011. I spent some […]
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During my recent stay in the Bay Area, Stephen suggested I join the San Rafael-based DevTech team to record another ADN DevCast. Our hope was to cut down the length somewhat by focusing on a single topic, but those plans pretty much went out the window as soon as I started talking. :-S 🙂 Thanks […]
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After I'd had such fun working out how to bring point clouds from Microsoft's Photosynth into AutoCAD, I was delighted when the Autodesk Labs team came to me with the suggestion of a comparable – although ultimately more useful – integration with the then-soon-to-be-released Project Photofly. The concept was simple: provide AutoCAD users with a […]
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I am really very excited about this technology. For those of you who've found my investigations into Photosynth and computer vision/photogrammetry solutions to be of interest, you're in for a treat. 🙂 As Scott Sheppard has announced over on his blog, Photo Scene Editor has just gone live on Autodesk Labs: a very interesting application, […]
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I've had quite a lot of contact with "laser" technology over the last few weeks. (In case you're wondering about the quotation marks, that's just a little nod to Mike Myers' fantastic Dr. Evil character, who in the Austin Powers movies refers to now-commonplace terms – such as laser – with finger quotes. 🙂 A […]
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Once again, members of the DevTech Americas team have put together an entertaining and informative DevCast session on AutoCAD's APIs. This time, Gopinath Taget joins Stephen Preston and Fenton Webb to present a number of interesting topics: boundary tracing, associative surfaces, 3D laser scanning and point cloud filtering. I'll be covering boundary tracing via this […]
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While on my way to San Francisco, last weekend, I had a 7-hour layover in Washington D.C. Given the amount of time available to me I decided to head from Dulles into the centre of the city and do something fun: I ended up choosing to visit the Natural History Museum at The Smithsonian, which […]
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I've submitted three sessions for this year's Autodesk University: Getting to know AutoCAD's Plugins of the Month (a 60-minute virtual class, session ID 1681) Synopsis: The Autodesk Developer Network (ADN) team has been publishing "Plugins of the Month" on Autodesk Labs for over a year. Each of these plugins extends an Autodesk products in a […]
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In the previous posts in this series we introduced a command that downloaded and imported point clouds from Photosynth.net, we introduced a WinForms user interface on top of it and then replaced that UI with one implemented using WPF. As threatened last time, we're now going to make some efficiency improvements in the original command […]