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Roland Emmerich looked to the future for his last big hit “2012″, and has decided to turn his interests to the past for his next movie “Anonymous”.  Based on the theory that several plays attributed to William Shakespeare may actually be the work of the 17th Earl of Oxford, it’s a literary-political thriller with 1-twentieth the budget of 2012.  How does he plan to reach his usual pinnacles of VFX with such a limited budget?

“It’s called photogrammetry,” Weigert told 30 Ninjas. “What you do is, you can build models in the computer based on photos only, so I could photograph your house, for instance, from several different angles, put that in the computer, and based on those photos I can build a 3-D model of that house, map those photographs on it like a wallpaper, and then it looks like a real building.” The pair used the technique in 2012, and plan to make it faster and more expansive for Anonymous.

via 30ninjas » Video » VFX Wizards Reveal How Emmerich Will Put the World Back Together Again in Anonymous.

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A new paper from the Finnish Geodesic Institute and the Helsinki Institute of Technology discusses a new method for computed 3D models of an environment using photogrammetry and laser scanning but adds in compensation for orientation problems.

Comprehensive 3D modeling of our environment requires integration of terrestrial and airborne data, which is collected, preferably, using laser scanning and photogrammetric methods. However, integration of these multi-source data requires accurate relative orientations. In this article, two methods for solving relative orientation problems are presented.

The entire paper is available as a PDF.

via Abstract: Orientation of Airborne Laser Scanning Point Clouds with Multi-View, Multi-Scale Image Blocks – MDPI.

Science paper, photogrammetry