Its admittedly pretty fun to fly around a house once you have the point cloud made, taking “pictures” that you couldn’t have snapped when you were actually on site without the use of a jetpack!
From the left
from the Right
This is a house in West Haven, CT.
Posted in 3-D scanning, 3D scan, architecture, photogrammetry, point cloud
View of Point Cloud from side/rear
Spending a lot of time seeing how different photogrammetric systems and point cloud software packages speak to one another. sometimes the interface is elegant, sometime not so much…
Posted in 3-D scanning, 3D scan, photogrammetry, point cloud, Uncategorized
The Alamo
I have been neglecting updates on my website, even though I’ve been doing some interesting work!
2016 has been extremely busy with large projects at the Biltmore in Asheville, NC and in San Antonio, TX (above). I’ve also had a chance to do some design work for two restaurant installations here in Virginia – “The Store” and “Chicano Boy”.
Plus I had a nice show of photographs of Portsmouth Island, NC that has been hanging in Ocracoke all summer.
That’s all for now – just wanted to post something 😉
Orthophoto of the Cabildo – St. Louis Cathedral – Presbetère facing Jackson Square
Neglecting the website/blog has gone on too long. I’ve been doing a lot of work since last fall but none of it has made it onto this page! So, just to break the ice, so to speak, I decided to grab share an orthophoto from a favorite place to many.
This orthophoto was composed of infrared shots of this famous trio of buildings in the heart of New Orleans. I grabbed these when I was visiting the city and looking at the possibility of creating a high res (both spatial and temporal) 3D model of the entire French Quarter for use as a planning and preservation tool.
Anyway, stay tuned and I’ll try to share some of the recent work soon.
Detail
Bob White Bridge
Measured Drawings of Bridge Exterior
Last summer I was hired by Frazier Associates in Staunton to prepare some as found documentation of the Bob White Covered Bridge in Patrick County, Virginia for preservation work to be conducted through VDOT. I learned yesterday that bridge was washed away in flash flooding! This is horrible to learn; now only seven covered bridges remain statewide, I believe.
I am therefore VERY glad to have a couple hundred photos of the structure suitable for photogrammetric rectification. I did prepare some simple drawings and orthophotography, small versions of which I’ll share here. I’ll also share some video snap shots of the point cloud I created.
I hope to get in touch with anyone who might be interested in rebuilding. If you stumble upon this page and share my interest please contact me!
Measured Drawings of Bridge in Plan
Below is a view of the point cloud using the free viewer distributed by Autodesk: RECAP.
Overview of point cloud
and a few videos of the orthophotography:
Posted in 3-D scanning, 3D scan, architecture, Drawing
Since 2009 I’ve done a fair amount of work with aerial photography, all the while continuing to explore architectural photography and photogrammetry while on the ground. I’ve tried in the past with some success to merge the two things but have found the results to be lacking something. That something, I think, is the hyper dense point cloud – and now I have it pretty much figured out.
Below are tow animated GIF images showing first the point cloud describing our local hospital (which I was contracted to cover with aerial photographs a few years back) and the second is a textured 3-D model of the scan.
Its so amazing to think that the flight over this structure can be reconstructed virtually a few years later with even more options to “fly around”…
Dense Point Cloud
Textured 3-D model
Posted in 3-D scanning, 3D scan, aerial photography, photogrammetry, point cloud
Tagged 3-D, 3d, aerial, aerial photo, Photogrammetry, Photography, scan, scanning
45 degrees
RCP
on axis
45 degrees
on axis
Luzerne County Courthouse
Posted in 3-D scanning, 3D scan, Orthophotography, photogrammetry, point cloud
Tagged architecture, Interior, Orthophotography, point cloud
The Civil Rights Memorial in Richmond, VA
Posted in 3-D scanning, 3D scan, photogrammetry, point cloud
Three views of a model of this iconic corner building
Just a quick share of the results of a test project to evaluate some new technology. Check out the video below to see all three views above in their 3D context.
Posted in 3-D scanning, 3D scan, photogrammetry, point cloud
Tagged 3d, aaslestad, clocktower, point cloud, Staunton
