Field log

The record, as it happens

The capture fix wasn't the mapper, it was the walk speedWeeks of tuning the reconstruction software for a scene that kept fragmenting turned out to be solving the wrong problem. The fix was in how the video was shot, not how it was processed.ProcessThe last batch from NMEC, and what its lighting did to a few of the meshesA closing capture session at the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization, and why some of that batch reconstructed with gaps photogrammetry usually shouldn't leave.Case StudyWhy Wikimedia Commons only takes STL, for nowCommons currently accepts 3D uploads only as binary STL: geometry only, no color or texture. What that means for a capture meant to end up there.ProcessStarting the Field LogWhy ArchaeoArchive has a blog now, and what it will and won't cover.AnnouncementWhat "freedom of panorama" means for scanning public monuments in EgyptEgyptian law doesn't give Commons a clean freedom-of-panorama exemption. What that restricts, and what it doesn't.Process