Photos to Twinin every paid edition

Photos in. A measured twin out.

One drone flight, a folder of photographs, a laser scan or a video — to a dense cloud, a mesh and Gaussian splats, in a real coordinate system, on your own graphics card.

Join the beta →The photographs
The flight · every camera position, as solved · plan

The rollwhat the drone saw

Every photographis a measurement.

Each frame carries where it was taken and how. The application reads that, finds the same points across overlapping frames, and solves where every camera stood.

Frame 0102 of the flight: the quarry floor and its paths from about 100 m up
Frame 0102one photograph of the flight, as it came off the camera

Consecutive frames of one flight, as they came off the camera · odm_wietrznia, © 2019 Tomasz Nycz, MIT

The stagesone solve, every resultstages 2–4 from one camera

From a photographto a twin.

01 · a photograph of the flightFrame 0140: the car park and a pylon at the quarry's edge
Photographswhere and how each was taken, read from the file
02 · capture.solveThe solved sparse cloud of tie points
Cameras solvedevery photograph placed, or told why not
03 · dense cloudThe dense point cloud of the quarry
Every pixel, measuredmulti-view stereo on your graphics card
04 · capture.trainThe cleaned Gaussian splats of the quarry
Gaussian splatstrained in the application

The twinmorning to nightthe application's own sky

The same place,in any light.

Splats under the application's sun · 06:00 to 21:30
Afternoon · splatsThe quarry as splats under drifting cloud
50 m above the groundA low drone-height view over the quarry's splats

The night in the film is graded afterwards, as its label says: splats carry the light they were photographed in.

workspace.cleanClean updrag the line

What the photographscould not agree on.

Seen from outside the flown area, fresh splats smear into needles and haze. Clean up finds them from the capture's own statistics and shows what would go before anything does.

Splats straight out of training, with smears and needles The same view after the floaters are removed Out of trainingAfter Clean up

Clean up › Floaters · the same camera on both sides of the line

In and outformats

A folder in.Every format out.

InPhotos, video, scansJPEG · PNG · TIFF · video · 360 rigs · E57 · PTX · LAS · LAZ · COPC · FARO FLS · Z+F ZFS
OutEvery resultSplats PLY · SOG · SPZ · LAS · LAZ · E57 · GLB · OBJ · SLPK · 3D Tiles · web package
NextHands on toSurvey → · Present → · Design → · Share →

What it does not do yet

Textured meshes still take a while to make, and making them quicker is work in progress. On AMD cards the camera solve extracts features on the CPU, which is slower. The camera-solve engine is a 1 GB download on first use. Scans are registered with a stated error; GNSS ties and targets are not supported yet.

Capture is in everypaid edition.

From €590 a year, €69 a month, or €1,390 perpetual with a year of updates. Per seat, excluding VAT. Draft prices.

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