Reality capture
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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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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 […]
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As alluded to in the last post in this series (ignoring a related post that dealt with user interface integration) I wasn't really happy with some of the tricks I needed in the WinForms version to try and make a coherent user interface for tracking accessed point clouds in a hosted Photosynth browsing session. This […]
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In the last post we looked at a command to allow importing of Photosynth point clouds into AutoCAD. In this post we'll put a GUI on the front end, to avoid people having to sniff network traffic to determine the location of the appropriate files on the Photosynth servers. The application is actually relative simple: […]
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For some background into what this series is all about, see this previous post. I've been tracking Photosynth for some time, but only recently became aware of its use of point-clouds on the back-end and the possibility of extracting this information from the site. I first got inspired by Binary Millenium's video of the process […]
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As I mentioned in the last post, I've been working on an application that brings across point clouds from Photosynth into AutoCAD. Before we get into the details, I'd like to lay some of the groundwork for this series of posts by talking a little about the bigger picture: "reality". How about that for bigger […]