Meshroom has been very fun to work with for what I can only refer to as "closed-shell" or fully convex shapes. I tried my damnedest to collect a good photogrammetry-based model of a flower, and the mesh fidelity I got from my 100 or so photos was pretty terrible... And I think probably because of the leafs and the bowl shape of the petals on top. If I had time, I probably would have separated the flower into distinct pieces (leafs, stem, top of flower) and do more assemblage in my 3D program with discretely generated meshes...<p>However, stones and plant bulbs came out great.<p>Edit: After some of the other links in this discussion, I definitely need to revisit this project! Some people have had great success with foliage and flowers it seems like.
Really cool, especially now that Autodesk's photogrammetry software is no longer available for free. I think this is a good example of academic/public research resulting in useful free software!
They link to the full Mikros showreel [1], implying that it's been used in a bunch of blockbusters already. But I couldn't find any information on how it's been used and in which projects, it would be cool to have more details on that. It's always interesting to see the film industry working with open source software, especially in cases like this where production companies are sponsoring development.<p>[1]: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBy1g7gbXCQ" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBy1g7gbXCQ</a>
My organization recently considered buying more licenses for photoscan/metashape (<a href="https://www.agisoft.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.agisoft.com/</a>) but it was too expensive. I'm curious as to how it compares (I'm not a user myself so can't judge), and I couldn't find wether this can run on a distributed GPU cluster. If that's the case I would love to push for replacing photoscan by this.
A useful addition to that page would be a short summary of what "photogrammetry" is and a description of what this software does. It need only be a couple of sentences. Otherwise, looks very interesting.
Another great free alternative is COLMAP (<a href="https://demuc.de/colmap" rel="nofollow">https://demuc.de/colmap</a>).<p>And for those interested in doing this on mobile in real-time, we've just released a beta SDK (<a href="https://abound.dev" rel="nofollow">https://abound.dev</a>) that lets you add real-time photogrammetry to any iOS app.