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Eternal City 03 + 04
Pushing at the limits of what I can photograph well, and also what I can do 3d scans of. This is Calicium lenticulare, a lichen with tiny pin-head shaped fruiting bodies that grows on tree bark. The green crusty stuff is also part of the same lichen.
Above is the 3d model textured and un-textured. The five pins nearest the center are reasonably well captured, the rest is a bit of a smeary mess.
In 2022 the Chinati Foundation's conservator published a report on the condition of Barge Marfa, a 21-ft foam and canvas orgy platform/sofa John Chamberlain made in 1983. It includes a 3-D model for future monitoring. [The artist's estate has been opposed to replacing the carved foam blocks, but is apparently chill with new canvas every year.]
The Chinati Chamberlain Foam Conservation Project [greg.org]
Being an archaeologist and an underfunded researcher means that there is a simple solution to my problem but I can´t afford it.
There is no project funding to get the professional agisoft metashape license which is the only version that allows orthomosaic creation.
So I spend the whole day trying to get similar results with the standard version to create a 3d model and rendering an orthographic view in blender. Now im figuring out how reality capture works to see if I can get the desired result there.
Annoying and slow but good for building my skill set I guess. And i am contributing to the honoured archaeological tradition of appropriating technology, theories and workflows to do something they were never meant to do jeej
I love my little gremlin science!
*you create anything*
Archaeologists everywhere:
obsessed w the contrast between extremely well rendered / extremely poorly rendered areas & the way it interprets some but not all mirrors as voids
Projection_1
from a new collection Physical locations, out of context, and impressions of existing in overlooked spaces. tools used: Polycam, Blender, Audacity, Procreate
Hidden Runic Messages in Gotland’s Medieval Churches Preserved with 3D Technology
Researchers are using photogrammetry to digitally preserve runic inscriptions carved into the plaster walls of Gotland’s medieval churches before climate-related damage causes them to fade.
Read here
My motorcycle being investigated by spheres