From: "Jim Feeley" <AE-List@media-motion.tv>
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Subject: Re: [AE] OT: Photoscan Pro
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Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2014 17:38:57 -0700
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My daughter does a lot of GIS work, but not MG/VFX work. She also =
suggested:

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Look at the non-pro version of PhotoScan and some "Structure from =
Motion=E2=80=9D open-source/freeware tools, specifically VisualSFM and =
CMPMVS. Decent overview:
http://page.mi.fu-berlin.de/block/intelligent-eye/motivations.html
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On Aug 17, 2014, at 9:51 AM, David Torno <AE-List@media-motion.tv> =
wrote:

> The standard version does a great job on a lot of stuff. I've done a =
few building exterior and movie set scans with it before, but mostly I =
do human capture ( https://vimeo.com/m/83652292 ) . The resulting models =
can always be decimated down to a small enough resolution so that =
Element 3D can handle it in After Effects too.
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> David Torno
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> "The most useless day is that in which we do not laugh"
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> On Aug 17, 2014, at 5:35 AM, "Richard Green" <AE-List@media-motion.tv> =
wrote:
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>> You could do most of that with the standard version. You lose some of =
the functionality to geolocate the data etc but if all you want is a =
good quality 3d model of the site, the standard version works well. I =
used it on a smaller scale here (30 secs in) and was only wanting proxy =
geometry but was very pleasantly surprised by how high quality the =
results were:
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>> http://www.loopcorp.com/#Billingtons_Xmas
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>> =E2=80=8BCheers
>> Rich
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>> On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 1:09 AM, Michael O'Reilly Home =
<AE-List@media-motion.tv> wrote:
>> Reading this article, the archaeologist mentions using drones to take =
pictures that are then stitched together using a "powerful Russian =
computer" from which ultimately 3D data is extracted.=20
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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/14/arts/design/drones-are-used-to-patrol-en=
dangered-archaeological-sites.html?_r=3D0
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>> (It's the NYTimes pay wall so the link might not work)
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>> It turns out it is Photoscan Pro they use. Does anyone know of =
anything that does something similar NOT for $3500 ?
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>> While this is not an AE related question, I plan on incorporating AE =
in the work that this could generate and I know that the people on this =
list are the best to answer this question.
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>> Thanks
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>> Mike O
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