Digital Utopias – Personal Museums and Recap 360
Last week three of us from Soup Collective took a road trip East over the Pennines to attend the one day “Digital Utopias” conference in Hull to show our Personal Museums project to the conference delegates.
The conference had been curated by “AND” it turned out to be a really engaging event with a lot of very interesting and friendly folks attending. Whilst there we met up with some of the National Football Museum guys including John and Sally who brought with them a 1926 footballers cap from the museums archive.
The personal museums installation was taken with us to the conference so anyone was able to have a go and hear about the overall project, we also put out a display demonstrating the hardware and processes of scanning and 3D printing objects. Sally had brought the footballers cap from the museum as an example object in order to scan it at the event, for this I used Autodesk’s ReCap 360 service, a cloud based Photogrammetry solution.
ReCap 360 consistently proves to be a fast and simplified process with the end results being truly excellent, the photography process with a DSLR took about 5 minutes for each side of the cap (interior/exterior) approximately 30 photos were taken for each of the sides to ensure full coverage. Once the images had been uploaded it took almost an hour for ReCap to process each side of the cap, which isn’t at all bad. Once the stitching is complete the model is then available as a high poly textured .OBJ file ready for the manual process of stitching the two together.
Alasdair Swenson