123D Catch scans 3D objects with the camera
123D Catch scans 3D objects with the camera
Everyone who has ever associated with 3D, dreamed of being able to easily transfer things from life to models in your favorite program. Until a certain moment, these were only dreams. Now the possibilities of 3D graphics have moved far enough. But what to say, what are motion capture , 3D TVs , 3D cinemas and stuff. A separate topic is 3D scanners and 3D printers . Which gradually enter the industry of three-dimensional graphics more and more, and the further, the faster. Maybe printers will be available to everyone after a while, and every schoolboy, engineer, student, can print everything on this 3D printer.
But the 3D scanner? Everything is much more complicated here. Get a three-dimensional model is much more difficult than printing it. Perhaps in the future it will be available, but we have a task to do it right now. We want to easily transfer models from life into the window of the program Maya , 3ds Max , Houdini , Zbrush , Blender or others. One of the possible options will be considered now.
To scan a 3D model (3d model), we need a digital camera, preferably not the cheapest, the program (about which below) and the object that we are going to transfer to the program.
Our beloved company Autodesk has developed a unique system, which has the same name 123D Catch . It is based on celestial technologies and makes it possible to easily build a 3D model for a set of captured photographs.
The shell was taken as an example. We will photograph her.
Now, we need to download the program, and then install it. Running.
Now take a picture of our object. Basic rules when shooting an object:
- photograph the object from all sides;
- photograph the near view, to emphasize details;
- We do not move the object, we move ourselves;
- the object should not be transparent;
- maximum number of photos for one object - not more than 70;
Having photographed the object, we collect all the photos and load them into the program ( Create a new Photo Scene ). After, to create a scene from our photos, click on the Complute Photo Scene .
After all this, the program asks us to enter the address of our mailbox, as well as two options for waiting for the scene. Here, or "wait" - wait until the processing of photos is over, or "email me" - the program will send you a notification upon completion, and the program will close.
As soon as the program processes all images, a scene window will appear in the program in which you can watch the model with the camera circuits from the positions from which the model was photographed. In the program, you can even zanimirovat rotation of the camera, around the object. Then download it in .avi format, or immediately fill it with youtube. But the most important thing is that you can export the scene in the formats .obj, .dwg, .fbx, .ipm, .las, .rzi. Those. we can see all this in our favorite three-dimensional packages (Maya, 3ds Max, etc.).