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Pointcloud exporter!
Peter (on the Photosynth team) ran across the following wonderful piece of work: http://binarymillenium.blogspot.com/2...
A number of you have asked about getting pointclouds out of Photosynth, and the clever binarymillenium has reverse-engineered how to parse it out! We should make the following caveats: a) binarymillenium isn't connected with Microsoft in any way (as far as we know :), and b) the format isn't yet documented or supported (we're working on it), so we can't yet guarantee that it'll be stable. But I'm sure there will be readers eager to try this out. (Binarymillenium, I hope you don't mind our reposting your screenshot!)
A number of you have asked about getting pointclouds out of Photosynth, and the clever binarymillenium has reverse-engineered how to parse it out! We should make the following caveats: a) binarymillenium isn't connected with Microsoft in any way (as far as we know :), and b) the format isn't yet documented or supported (we're working on it), so we can't yet guarantee that it'll be stable. But I'm sure there will be readers eager to try this out. (Binarymillenium, I hope you don't mind our reposting your screenshot!)
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Inappropriate?I'm in the mechanical engineering, shipbuilding industry. We are constantly called on to repair damaged existing systems which have no known historical design data. Often our first task is to grab lots of snaps and start measuring. We have experimented with various point cloud laser devices and have some code to decipher point clouds in AutoCAD and (somewhat) intelligently map to 3D part catalogs for model construction. The possibility\ability to take this to a new level of AI with photosynth is exciting.
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Inappropriate?Also could a 3D model export be created, including texture mapping
& a filter to remove people from textures
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Inappropriate?Can someone give a quick Wireshark "for idiots" guide to getting hold of the bin file?
Wouldn't mind a python "for idiots" either.!
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Ok, figgured out Wireshark, Python, and Processing. Not so tricky. Thou, I haven't found many points yet. Any ideas for getting all the points from a whole synth?
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Inappropriate?This is a great opportunity for modelers who must rebuild real objects.
Half of the work is done, practically.
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Inappropriate?Is the point cloud in the collection.synth.bin file?
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Inappropriate?preferably in a format that is Maya, Max, Autocad compatible.. such as OBJ
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Inappropriate?This is awesome, great to see you guys at Live Labs actually support people hacking the data and are encouraging people to use PhotoSynth in new and creative ways.
Now all we need is someone to write a tool to smooth the cloud by throwing away noisy points, find planes that are members of the cloud, tessellate them, paint the mesh with the photos and upload into Virtual Earth!
Or is that asking too much? ;-)
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Asking too much? Free software that can turn flat photos into a pointcloud is like unbelievable magic already! So I think exporting that as a rendered 3D image ought to be easy. Right?
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Inappropriate?The ability to export 3D point clouds and camera position/orientation would move Photosynth from a "Interesting Activity" to a "Research Powerhouse" overnight!
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Inappropriate?I've just tried to get that Python script running in c#
http://conceptdev.blogspot.com/2009/0...
I'm not sure it's 100% correct, but am happy for feedback or for someone else to finish it off. Or else the team will release the bin file format tomorrow ;)
I’m almost there (I think)
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Inappropriate?This is really cool! I just used Photosynth on a Sculpture to make a 3D scanner...and wrote a little bit about my experience including Zhang and Lowe ;-)
Great work guys!
Best Regards,
Mans
Posted about it here.
http://isontech.blogspot.com/2009/04/...
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Inappropriate?I'd like to see an easier way to do it- perhaps a dae file? -
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