#photogrammetry

Pushing at the limits of what I can photograph well, and also what I can do 3d scans of. This is Calicium lenticulare, a lichen with tiny pin-head shaped fruiting bodies that grows on tree bark. The green crusty stuff is also part of the same lichen.

In 2022 the Chinati Foundation's conservator published a report on the condition of Barge Marfa, a 21-ft foam and canvas orgy platform/sofa John Chamberlain made in 1983. It includes a 3-D model for future monitoring. [The artist's estate has been opposed to replacing the carved foam blocks, but is apparently chill with new canvas every year.]

There is no project funding to get the professional agisoft metashape license which is the only version that allows orthomosaic creation.

So I spend the whole day trying to get similar results with the standard version to create a 3d model and rendering an orthographic view in blender. Now im figuring out how reality capture works to see if I can get the desired result there.

Annoying and slow but good for building my skill set I guess. And i am contributing to the honoured archaeological tradition of appropriating technology, theories and workflows to do something they were never meant to do jeej

I love my little gremlin science!

*you create anything*

Archaeologists everywhere:

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Researchers are using photogrammetry to digitally preserve runic inscriptions carved into the plaster walls of Gotland’s medieval churches before climate-related damage causes them to fade.