Discipline — Photogrammetry
Discipline — Photogrammetry
I have been using photogrammetry to create 3D models since the early days of Agisoft, switching to Reality Capture when it first became available as my main photogrammetry tool. Since then, I have developed tools in SideFX Houdini to automate as much of the process as possible.
The work runs from museum documentation — the Getty Museum asked me to photograph and reconstruct ancient Assyrian tablets — to production scanning, where lidar and extensive photography for photogrammetry underpinned "Moon," the first Lightfield and CGI integrated short produced by Lytro.
The practice includes
In March 2020, one of the last things I did before the pandemic closed everything down was photograph two ancient Assyrian cuneiform tablets at the Getty Villa, scanning them for photogrammetry reconstruction.
The museum was closed to the public. On a grey, misty morning, Eric Bertoli met my wife and me and walked us in — it is still one of the highlights of all my scanning work.
"It is still one of the highlights of all my scanning work."
An ongoing body of scanning and reconstruction work — 3D models built from photographs, processed in Reality Capture.
Tools developed in SideFX Houdini automate as much of the process as possible, from alignment through final geometry.
VR Playhouse conceived the idea for "Moon," the first Lightfield and CGI integrated short ever produced by the camera company Lytro. I was the Technical Director and lead artist on the production and post-production side.
The production had to be meticulous in the information gathered — lidar and extensive photography for photogrammetry underpinned the reconstruction.