RealityScan and Rhino

Using RealityScan on iPhone 12. Based on approx. 70 images. The original mesh model has been cleaned up slightly in Rhino and Photoshop and the base replaced by nurbs model. Sculpture by Danish artist Hans Oldau Krull. Quick animation showing the cleaned up mesh from the scan with no diffuse map on - amazing detail, considering it took ~5 minutes to scan/photograph it. This is great for getting custom assets into your render scenes in almost no time.


-Jakob
Edit: Original sculpture is soapstone

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Jakob,

Do you know if RealityCapture is using the depth maps captured directly from the iPhone or is it computing depth maps based on the images only?

A related question would be if you are using JPGs or Raw / HDR images to import into RealityCapture?

Hi @cdordoni
Note that this was made with the “simpler” IOS-only (Android is coming!) app RealityScan, which - as far as I understand it - is based on the same tech as RealityCapture, but in an easy-to-use interface. Since I’m using an ordinary iPhone 12, there’s no Lidar involved. No idea if they use the Lidar data on the phones that support it :grimacing: The app is great (but eats your battery up in no time, so bring a power bank!). And it’s (for now) free to use. Final model, after server’s done computing it, is uploaded to Sketchfab and you download it from there.
-Jakob

FWIW, if you have a mac running Apple Silicon, the “Object capture from photos” might do the same thing?
-wim

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Hello Jakob,

Thank you for posting this model. This is a very interesting and [yes] appears to be a quite useful visualization technique.

Thank you,

Andy

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I made a scan on iPhone the other day using Scaniverse. The speed is incredible, and the meshes it generates are fairly detailed. It seems to work best with objects that have a matte texture but that is to be expected.

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Nice work! I just did a scan with my old IPhone SE of this gadget (a camber/caster tool for front wheels).
I used an app called PolyCam. I also have IRhino on the phone and tried it to scan but it needs one of the LIDAR phones.

Awesome! :sunglasses: