Meshroom – Open-source photogrammetry software

The singer from UK indie pop (?) band Everything Everything self-studied over three weeks this app along with Blender and some othe stuff to make a very stylised, glitchy music video the other week.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;mcWwGBHa24g" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;mcWwGBHa24g</a><p>He posted &quot;Thanks for the help, guys!&quot; messages in several Reddit forums. It was weird. &quot;Wait, that&#x27;s your band?&quot; &quot;Yeah, I&#x27;m the singer.&quot; &quot;Oh, you sound great keep going!&quot; These guys have sold out rather large venues in the UK. Anyway, this seems to have turned in to an endorsement of the band. Ok, yes it is. But I swear this isn&#x27;t the singer again.

For those with laptops or who don&#x27;t have Nvidia GPUs, Meshroom can be used for free in the cloud using Google colab <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;alicevision&#x2F;meshroom&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Meshroom-in-Google-Colab-(cloud)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;alicevision&#x2F;meshroom&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Meshroom-in-Goo...</a>. I created this scan using this technique and I only have an integrated Intel GPU: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sketchfab.com&#x2F;3d-models&#x2F;parvati-cantor-arts-center-at-stanford-ab1407479bee4259a267030350473b1b" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sketchfab.com&#x2F;3d-models&#x2F;parvati-cantor-arts-center-a...</a>

If anyone would like to see a Meshroom scan, here&#x27;s a fire hydrant I 3d scanned in Downtown Portland, Oregon: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;socialhome.network&#x2F;media&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2020&#x2F;04&#x2F;30&#x2F;94efe3d3-41fe-434a-873d-488bebe8e1c7.gif" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;socialhome.network&#x2F;media&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2020&#x2F;04&#x2F;30&#x2F;94efe3d3...</a><p>I photographed it on my iPhone 8+ and used Meshroom to generate the mesh. The turntable animation was done in Blender.

I&#x27;d be very interested in a comparison Meshroom vs. RealityCapture (which seems to become the standard in non-free photogrammetry).

Was this always open source? Somehow in my photogrammetry journey I’ve heard of this and not tried it. I guess I assumed it was proprietary. Anyone have any comments on how this compares to COLMAP? Looks like better UI at least.<p>Also anyone interested in the subject check out <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;photogrammetry" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;photogrammetry</a> and <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;3dscanning" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;3dscanning</a>

Fun software, easy to use. Was able to scan my kid&#x27;s stuffed animal and reproduce a small 3d-printed version of it.

I&#x27;m interested to try it.<p>I&#x27;ve been watching people do photogrammetry for a while now, but the results have seemed really bad. When you remove the texture, the underlying model always seems off. This is important for doing object-&gt;mesh-&gt;modify-&gt;3D-print workflows.<p>This implementation looks a bit better than the rest.

They ever get around to HIPifying the CUDA bits?

There’s a free photogrammetry app in the iOS App Store called turn3d. It’s a bit rough around the edges but does the job

It seems like this has good promise, but scale is random on the output.<p>I&#x27;ve been looking for a good way to make a customized face mask using photogrammetry and my 3d printer, so I&#x27;m going to give this a shot. The only issue will be scaling the model so that my head is the right size for the modeling process.

If you don&#x27;t want to mess with setup etc check out <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;get.display.land&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;get.display.land&#x2F;</a> which will let you download and do whatever you want with the resulting models.

CUDA-only :(

Has anyone tried it? I&#x27;ve been trying for a while to find a way to 3D scans stuff to 3D print but the quality of the final file has always been so crappy that I didn&#x27;t even want to waste time and filament printing it

Great software.<p>Now if only they can start to catch up with Reality Capture in terms of speed...

Related from 2019: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=19684342" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=19684342</a>

Is it possible to do this programatically?

Odd that the title didn&#x27;t use the word &quot;photogrammetry&quot; which is what most people call this thing.

No Mac = No go for me.