Saturday, December 2, 2017

Pablo Reyes - Week 13 Laser Scanning in Detail

Concept 

The object that inspired me to take into the digital world is this Mexican rainstick, it has been a possession of my family since I was a toddler hence the white empty spots on the object that used to have shiny gemstones which I confused for candy. The history of this rainstick is unknown but I am confident that it comes from the indigenous people that set up their mini shops at the bottom of the pyramids of Tenochtitlan and ancient Mayan city.



Technique 

My interest fell on taking the photogrammetry approach for this 3d scanning project, the idea of creating an accurate model using images and their position in space blew my mind. The process was quite simple, I took a series of photos that captured my object's surface then compiled them inside Agisoft PhotoScan which through 4 different steps (Align Photos, Build Dense Cloud, Build Mesh, and Build Texture) created a 3d model out of my images. There was some clean up to do to the model before exporting it but the free-form selection tool of the software made it a piece of cake. I took the model into Rhino and filled the holes at the top and bottom of my object as well as making a mesh reduced version. The final step involved using Keyshot to add a maroon wood texture to my object and render it with a backplate that emphasized the size of what I would want this piece to be in the physical world.







Materials 

Mexican bamboo rainstick
DSLR camera
Agisoft PhotoScan
Rhinoceros
Keyshot
Affinity Photo

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