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.ProcessWhy 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.ProcessWhat "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