A new tool in photographic 3D reconstruction hit the open-source pavement last week called ‘Insight3d’. Still in active development, it’s an open-source tool (available for Windows & Linux) that takes a collection of photos around an object and creates a point-cloud of the object, and then provides tessellation tools to reconstruct a textured polygonal model.
insight3d lets you create 3D models from photographs. You give it a series of photos of a real scene (e.g., of a building), it automatically matches them and then calculates positions in space from which each photo has been taken (plus camera’s optical parameters) along with a 3D pointcloud of the scene. You can then use insight3d’s modeling tools to create textured polygonal model.
It’s still very early in development, but fully functional. Check it out and see what you think!
via insight3d – opensource image based 3d modeling software.
