Comments on: Building Rome in a Day http://www.pastthinking.com/blog/2009/07/31/building-rome-in-a-day/ Archaeology, museums, and heritage: news, opinions and digital developments Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:59:27 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Tom Goskar http://www.pastthinking.com/blog/2009/07/31/building-rome-in-a-day/comment-page-1/#comment-48765 Tom Goskar Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:59:27 +0000 http://www.pastthinking.com/blog/?p=314#comment-48765 Thanks for the update, Bill. I will certainly try it out - the 'old' way of intercepting the data and converting the binary file was a lot of hassle. Unfortunately the examples I tried (mainly Stonehenge related) had terrible point clouds, so at least trying different ones will now be less painful (especially if the resultant point cloud is poor too!). Cheers, Tom Thanks for the update, Bill. I will certainly try it out – the ‘old’ way of intercepting the data and converting the binary file was a lot of hassle.

Unfortunately the examples I tried (mainly Stonehenge related) had terrible point clouds, so at least trying different ones will now be less painful (especially if the resultant point cloud is poor too!).

Cheers,

Tom

]]> By: Bill Hume http://www.pastthinking.com/blog/2009/07/31/building-rome-in-a-day/comment-page-1/#comment-48762 Bill Hume Sun, 07 Mar 2010 23:58:07 +0000 http://www.pastthinking.com/blog/?p=314#comment-48762 There is now a free prog. which allows the simple extraction of point cloud data from Photosynth. http://pspcexporter.codeplex.com/ Works an absolute treat. Only problem I have now is that I'm unable to get Meshlab to convert the point cloud to a mesh. Having never worked with 3D (in a computing sense), I forsee a steep and painful learning curve ahead. Worth trying it out. Just paste the url of my synth of the standing stone (above), into the appropriate box and hit go.......it really is that simple. Point cloud may be viewed in meshlab......I was surprised how much of the field boundaries were there, you need to zoom in on the stone itself. Hope this of interest to you, Bill Hume. There is now a free prog. which allows the simple extraction of point cloud data from Photosynth.

http://pspcexporter.codeplex.com/

Works an absolute treat. Only problem I have now is that I’m unable to get Meshlab to convert the point cloud to a mesh. Having never worked with 3D (in a computing sense), I forsee a steep and painful learning curve ahead.
Worth trying it out. Just paste the url of my synth of the standing stone (above), into the appropriate box and hit go…….it really is that simple.
Point cloud may be viewed in meshlab……I was surprised how much of the field boundaries were there, you need to zoom in on the stone itself.
Hope this of interest to you,
Bill Hume.

]]> By: patrick http://www.pastthinking.com/blog/2009/07/31/building-rome-in-a-day/comment-page-1/#comment-48436 patrick Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:12:35 +0000 http://www.pastthinking.com/blog/?p=314#comment-48436 Hello: I am a 3d illustrator who specializes in renderings of events historical in nature.When I read your post with the subject "3d" it natural got my attention. Reading your post regarding "Building Rome in a day" I couldn't help but think of the Google Earth project "Ancient Rome in 3d" and thought that may be something you would be interested in. I like your blog, some of the information I find quite interesting. Hello:
I am a 3d illustrator who specializes in renderings of events historical in nature.When I read your post with the subject “3d” it natural got my attention. Reading your post regarding “Building Rome in a day” I couldn’t help but think of the Google Earth project “Ancient Rome in 3d” and thought that may be something you would be interested in. I like your blog, some of the information I find quite interesting.

]]> By: Bill Hume http://www.pastthinking.com/blog/2009/07/31/building-rome-in-a-day/comment-page-1/#comment-48328 Bill Hume Mon, 28 Sep 2009 11:27:02 +0000 http://www.pastthinking.com/blog/?p=314#comment-48328 Cool...undoubtedly and no doubt usefull in a global recording sense. It does however remind me of Photosynth in that the point clouds are unobtainable to us mere mortals. I had hoped for a system like 'synth where I could input photographs and have a point cloud constructed from them. Yes I know 'synth does that, but there is no mechanism for obtaining the point cloud data. It's so frustrating. See http://photosynth.net/view.aspx?cid=40f024dd-d24e-4d97-a530-501faefc639f It's a synth of a standing stone I made last year. I love the point cloud, I can see it, but can't obtain it as a data set. Let's hope someone at Microsoft sees the real value of Photosynth soon. Bill Hume. Cool…undoubtedly and no doubt usefull in a global recording sense. It does however remind me of Photosynth in that the point clouds are unobtainable to us mere mortals. I had hoped for a system like ’synth where I could input photographs and have a point cloud constructed from them. Yes I know ’synth does that, but there is no mechanism for obtaining the point cloud data. It’s so frustrating.
See
http://photosynth.net/view.aspx?cid=40f024dd-d24e-4d97-a530-501faefc639f
It’s a synth of a standing stone I made last year. I love the point cloud, I can see it, but can’t obtain it as a data set. Let’s hope someone at Microsoft sees the real value of Photosynth soon.
Bill Hume.

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