Photogrammetry - Thrive Sculpture
Photogrammetry - Thrive Sculpture
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- To "Walk" or Navigate, click and move your mouse on the image area above.
- To look up or down, use your mouse scroll wheel or if on your smart phone use 2 fingers on the screen at the same time.
- Walk closer to the model and you will see you can walk under and inside the sculpture, just like in the actual physical sculpture in Fort Lauderdale.
- If you have a VR headset like the Meta Quest, you can enter this world immersively.
This 3D VR object is a result of photogrammetry using Meshroom of the Thrive Sculpture in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
The Thrive sculpture, created in 2020, is by artist Daniel Popper. You can find more information about the sculpture and the artist on his website daielpopper.com. On Instagram @danielpopper.
To start this process, I took 35 pictures with my cell phone around the sculpture. I could only shoot pictures from about 180 degrees around it because it's under a building and there are walls and a restaurant near it.
Next, I imported the pictures into software called Meshroom and processed them to create a 3D mesh. It was quite easy to create the 3D mesh right away. I only needed to make some simple adjustments.
I then opened the resultant mesh and processed it in Blender to reduce the large size and some other technical issues with the 3D mesh.
After working on the 3D mesh in Blender, I then exported the model in X3D and added some simple code to add lights and navigation to the scene.
And finally, the software used to render the final X3D code in your web browser is X_ITE
And here is the result of this work.
And to top it all off, all this software mentioned above is FREE!
The Thrive sculpture, created in 2020, is by artist Daniel Popper. You can find more information about the sculpture and the artist on his website daielpopper.com. On Instagram @danielpopper.
To start this process, I took 35 pictures with my cell phone around the sculpture. I could only shoot pictures from about 180 degrees around it because it's under a building and there are walls and a restaurant near it.
Next, I imported the pictures into software called Meshroom and processed them to create a 3D mesh. It was quite easy to create the 3D mesh right away. I only needed to make some simple adjustments.
I then opened the resultant mesh and processed it in Blender to reduce the large size and some other technical issues with the 3D mesh.
After working on the 3D mesh in Blender, I then exported the model in X3D and added some simple code to add lights and navigation to the scene.
And finally, the software used to render the final X3D code in your web browser is X_ITE
And here is the result of this work.
And to top it all off, all this software mentioned above is FREE!
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