Italian artist Gabriele Simonetta has implemented a photogrammetry workflow to help layout and provide reference for an impressive scene he created depicting a street in rural Italy. In a forum post titled ‘A day at the sleepy village’, Simonetta unveiled several charming and photorealistic images from his most recent project, a study in collaboration with […]
Category: 3D Modelling

Stunning mountain hut photogrammetry
Photogrammetry enthusiast and SketchFab user PeterPWS has created a stunning capture of a snow-dusted hut on Tasmania’s Cradle Mountain. The Cradle Mountain Kitchen Hut provides a safe refuge for weary hikers along Cradle Mountain’s Cradle Plateau. The structure was commissioned in 1939 by the Cradle Mountain Reserve Board, built at a location referred to as […]

Scanning a fence in Melbourne
This is a fence at the side of an apartment block in East Melbourne, painted with a mural of blue deer and these ethereal yellow tentacles. The model was created using 80 photos shot on a Nikon D5100 with the stock 18-55mm lens, processed with Agisoft Metashape and finished with Blender. The final mesh was […]

Modelling the White Cliffs of Dover using video data
It’s interesting what can be generated with some random data, or at least data that was not created for the purposes of photogrammetry. The right set of images sourced from multiple places or a sharp enough piece of video can make for some cool experiments in point cloud generation. To demonstrate this, we grabbed some […]

Beautiful heritage photogrammetry by London artist David Fletcher
David Fletcher is a London-based video game artist and photogrammetry enthusiast whose impressive scans are largely heritage based. Through studying computer animation and working for Sony PlayStation, Fletcher has developed a passion for drawing, CG and architecture. That passion has translated to some beautifully realised scans, featured here. The Charterhouse Norfolk Cluster The Charterhouse Norfolk […]

Photomodeler posts guide on Rhino 3D workflow
Photogrammetry software Photomodeler has released a workflow guide for Rhino 3D, demonstrating how the two software packages complement each other. Photomodeler, developed by Vancouver-headquartered Eos Systems, is designed to provide accurate 3D models and measurement across the industries of fabrication and manufacturing, forensics, engineering, architecture and surveying, mining, UAV scanning and more. Rhino 3D is […]

ArchiCAD buyers gifted free version of Epic Games’ new vis engine
Customers of CAD software vendor Graphisoft, developer of ArchiCAD, are set to gain free access to an upcoming visualisation engine developed by video game software company Epic Games. Epic Games, developer of the Unreal Engine, in May this year acquired a visualisation engine developed by French studio Abvent called Twinmotion, which was developed on top […]

Rhino unveils fourth essential computational maths guide
3D modelling software Rhino has released the fourth edition of its Essential Mathematics for Computation Design publication. The guide, put together by Rhino dev Rajaa Issa, is a comprehensive overview of “the foundational mathematical concepts necessary” to get the most out of Grasshopper, Rhino’s built-in generative modelling environment. “The text and examples explain, with some […]

Dassault, BHP strike digital partnership
Industrial 3D modelling and design software maker Dassault Systèmes has struck up a partnership with global resources giant BHP. The partnership, Dassault announced, is expected to “unlock value by applying technologies proven in other industries to the core mining fundamentals of geoscience and resource engineering”. “BHP and Dassault Systèmes share the same vision and ambition […]