Week 4 | 123D Catch

Today Russel bought in the MV Agusta Motorcycle for us to capture photos of and to document. The latest task was to take as many photos as possible by circulating around the bike so that 123D catch can capture as much footage to create a precise 3d model.

When Shooting the Photographs
The idea is to shoot a loop of sequential photographs in small increments around the subject like the example below

Autodesk. "Welcome to 123D Catch." . http://apps.123dapp.com/catch/ (accessed March 26, 2014).

The subject must stay completely still and for the best results adding random scribble marks on or around the object before capturing the photographs will help in the generation of the 3D model.

 

 

I spent a few hours in class trying to generate the catch file. We were told that the more pictures (200+) to use, the more accurate the model will be. This wasn't the case. The software kept freezing after about 90% of the model generating and not only did the software crash on me but also on the other members in the other groups who were doing the same thing.

 

I attempted to generate the model using the 123D Catch web application online as opposed to using the downloaded software version which recommended no more than 70 images but the speed of the internet slowed down progress. Since the online 123D Catch application recommended no more than 70 images, I attempted that amount for the downloaded software and it was finally a success.