Week 4- 5 - 123D Catch

This week saw Molly and I venturing outside the classroom to take some photos of Russel’s MV Agusta motorcycle. The aim was to take multiple photos from 360 ⁰ around the bike from up high and down low. This would allow the 3D program ‘123D Catch’ to generate a 3D model from those pictures. The better the photos the better the model, so I brought my 5D along to take some high quality images.

The lighting on the day was quite bad. The time was about midday and the sun was at its strongest meaning that there were really harsh shadows. My camera has an inbuilt HDR function so I made use of that to expose for the shadows.

Once the photos were taken, we then started to experiment with the 123D Catch program to see how our projects would turn out. To our disappointment, we found it really difficult to achieve even a average model as the program would rarely make it past the ‘Photo Upload or Create Capture’ process. We later found out that everyone was having difficulties creating a model.

We found out that the program would not work with more than 70 photos and that they had to be a small size. Molly was able to create a average model but we have put it aside for later as we were waiting too much time on it.

I was able to generate a model but it was all over the place and looked like the program couldn't match the points of interest in the photos. I assumed this was because each photos was cropped to a different size and ratio.

Once all the illustrator work is complete, we will be venturing off to the Red Center labs to use 123D catch on those computers as they will most defiantly work better and faster.