This is the place where you should post your entries to the RealityCapture for Culture competition.
The model or video must be posted here in order to be considered as the competition entry. However, feel free to share it on your social media or in our Capturing Reality Arena.
Feel free to comment, admire, give advice, but please be polite and stick to the rules of the forum and the competition.
We are looking forward to seeing many amazing videos and models.
For those who have just stumbled across this group:
The aim of this competition is to create a 3D model of what is, or what you consider to be cultural heritage and deserves to be preserved in a digital form. And, more importantly, tell us a story of this place or item. Here you can find more information on the competition and how to participate.
Here my first model on the 2 that i want to share:
from the japanese esoterism and a base of japanese history:
Byakko: the white tiger representing Autumn and Metal, guardian of the West direction
(always represented with Seiryū: the Azure Dragon: which is the second model)
by extension, and not a point to consider for the challenge:
i print them in flax fibers, for educational purposes (let young generations discovering their history)
Two very strong earthquakes hit Kumamoto in a short period of time in April of 2016. Kumamoto prefecture is suffering serious damage.
Kumamoto will repair the castle in this 20 years. PS. I’m sorry but the model is incomplete.
Enter the Hallwyl House - where the 19th century never ended!
It was once home to the wealthy couple Wilhelmina and Walther von Hallwyl and is situated in the center of Stockholm, Sweden. It was built as a representative winter home, as well as an office for the family business and a suitable surrounding for Wilhelmina von Hallwyl’s extensive collections of art and antiques. The house is now a museum.
The Nicolaus Copernicus Monument in Kraków, Poland was designed by sculptor Cyprian Godebski in 1899 and completed in 1900. It has become a significant landmark of the city, as it commemorates one of the most famous alumni of the Jagiellonian University of Kraków.
Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) was a Renaissance scientist and scholar. His heliocentric model of the universe was revolutionary and contributed greatly to the emergence and development of modern science. He was an astronomer, mathematician, translator, physician, economist, and had a doctorate in canon law. A true polymath, or “Renaissance man”, whose life and work has become a part of cultural heritage of Europe and the world.
The 3D model features the monument of Copernicus wearing a purple bowtie. It was put on it as a part of an artistic happening organized by the University’s students to promote upcoming Juvenalia, a yearly student festival celebrating youth culture, freedom of expression and creativity.
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Reality Capture processing of 1281 images in 7h 40 minutes.
Camera : Nikon D610
Lens : Nikon Nikkor AF 28 mm f/2.8D
Additional tools : Tripod, Camera Crane (homemade), ColorChecker, Clamp Crabs, Magic Arm, Infrared Nikon Remote Control
David Bowie had a massive fan following around the world. This capture shows the various stages of his amazing career and is now preserved forever in 3d thanks to ReallityCapture.
Focusing on the “Portal of the Last Judgement” and “Gallery of Kings”, our goal was to reconstruct a very high-detailed version of the Cathedral West Facade.
We processed 800+ colour-calibrated photos in Reality Capture. All Processing (Reconstruction, Unwrap and texturing) done in RC.
For Sketchfab, we baked a normal map from the raw scan on a decimated version to maximize details, keeping decent polycount for real-time rendering.
Windmill from the village of Bogdanka near Juchnowiec (Podlasie) from 1945 translocated to the open-air museum of the Podlasie folk-cultural museum located in Wasilkow. The object is a 27-hectare area, on which more than 30 wooden objects were located.
Windmill type: wood dutch.
It is one of three objects that we have scanned together with Monika Urbańczyk at the Museum of Folk Culture. This is also my first approach to scan an object of this size. Used: Canon 5dsr, Sigma art lens 50mm, monopod
Created in RealityCapture by Capturing Reality from 362 images in 18h:17m:05s.
Raw scan made on cinema movie projector that is standing in Kijów Centrum Cimena in Kraków, Poland.
It was used for 35mm tape. Produced in the 1961 by Łódzkie Zakłady Kinotechniczne in Poland. The projector was designed for cinemas with rooms up to 1000 seats. It was then one of the most popular models used in Polish cinemas.
The projector was equipped with an aspherical mirror with a diameter of 356 mm and a focal length of 120 mm. The standard lens provided by the manufacturer was Polkinar 1.8 / 100.
The basic equipment of the projector was an optical sound reading system with two exposure bulbs - one in the working position, the other one in reserve (both fixed in the rotating holder, which allowed for exchange without interrupting the projection). In addition, the projector could be equipped with a 4-channel magnetic sound pickup.
The projector was powered by a three-phase asynchronous motor. The engine was started using an automatic starter.
Hello everyone. I really liked the theme of the contest so I decided to give the demo version a try and scan a small statue of Plato that I had sitting around. I will visit the Acropolis museum as well in a few days but I am not sure if I can make it by the time the deadline is set, so I made this video just to be sure.
I stumble across this ruins during a little road trip I’ve made in the south of France last week end.
nb: blur on this image is from the small rain droplet on the lens
It was rainy and windy so I need to be quick to avoid having too much droplet on my lens and need higher iso to compensate motion blur from the wind and the lack of sun.
This was done with one battery (20min) on a P4P takink about 700 photos.
It could have been better if I’ve had some pictures from the ground but rain forced me to abort the capture.
This is straight from RC no touch up in external software.
By the way recon and texturing was blazing fast using nvidia GV100 combine with RC !
De statue is about a broken hart, friendship and trust between human fades away, the broken hart is in fire and a dove escape from it. Flying to a respectfull world in harmony - statue created by Martine Gangelhof.
The statue was a collaboration between our schools and our medical doctor, each year during memorial day (4th of may), the marching to our cemetry start from this statue.
Took 196 picture with a canon eos 500d, each picture was accepted in the process.
Highest point with 3meter tripod, diafragma at 22 for correct dof, automatic iso and auto shutterspeed, zoomlens approx 28 to get good overlap
My entry is located in Belgium in Tournai. It’s one of the last watergate in Europe. Designed to control and defend the river access to the city, it’s one of the city symbol along with the cathedral and the belfort.
A project is ongoing because current state limit navigation activities. I have no clue about driving a canal boat but i guess you must be quite a pilot to cross that narrow arch…
I tried to get the whole site in one build in RC and i managed to fit it inside the 2500 pictures limit. It was a bit tricky due to the size and the interior part, combined with my goals (being able to see a lot of the stones geometry). I used a nikon d5100 and cgo3 from the yuneec typhoon H platform, producing raw (nikon) and jpg (typhoon) files. I tried to shoot only in cloudy condition but it was challenging… clouds are nice but often followed/bringing by rain here in Belgium…
nb: blur on this image is from the small rain droplet on the lens