{"id":18924,"date":"2022-01-07T10:27:34","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T18:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=18924"},"modified":"2022-01-07T10:34:10","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T18:34:10","slug":"rad-scans-drones-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/07\/rad-scans-drones-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"Rad scans: Drones &#038; trees"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Earlier this week I was amazed to see the 3D scan that <a href=\"https:\/\/poly.cam\/\">Polycam<\/a> founder Chris Heinrich was able to achieve by flying around LA &amp; capturing ~100 photos of a neighborhood, then generating 3D results via the new Web version of Polycam:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Captured a strip of Mission Beach during a recent trip to San Diego with \u2066<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Polycam3D?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Polycam3D<\/a>\u2069 web. Crazy the kind of world scanning you can do with a ~15 min drone flight. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/photogrammetry?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#photogrammetry<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/3d?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#3d<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ta2YzINS70\">pic.twitter.com\/Ta2YzINS70<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Chris Heinrich (@cpheinrich) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cpheinrich\/status\/1478903691058970627?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 6, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I must try to replicate this myself!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can take the results for a (literal) spin <a href=\"https:\/\/poly.cam\/capture\/7b469dbd-79e1-4833-a100-dc9c0bd1158e\">here<\/a>, though note that they didn&#8217;t load properly on my iPhone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As you may have seen in Google Earth &amp; elsewhere, scanning &amp; replicating amorphous organic shapes like trees remains really challenging:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Trees.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"560\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Trees-1024x560.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18926\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Trees-1024x560.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Trees-300x164.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Trees-768x420.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Trees.jpg 1508w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s therefore all the more amazing to see the incredible results these artists exacting artists are able to deliver when creating free-to-use (!) assets for Unreal Engine:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Introducing: Megascans Trees\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zetS4xo5eUs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>[Via Michael Klynstra]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week I was amazed to see the 3D scan that Polycam founder Chris Heinrich was able to achieve by flying around LA &amp; capturing ~100 photos of a neighborhood, then generating 3D results via the new Web version of Polycam: I must try to replicate this myself! You can take the results for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18924"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18924"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18928,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18924\/revisions\/18928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}