>From the links that have been suggested so far, I doubt people have a good idea of what's actually needed. As an example, I'm involved with a project documenting prehistoric rock carvings. We need to produce dense 3D meshes with sub-millimetre accuracy across surfaces of a few square metres in the field, for archival purposes, to distinguish artificial markings from natural, to analyse tool marks etc. There is commercial software, but licences of even just a couple of hundred pounds are way out of affordability, and as I'm running the rest of the project on free software (Quantum GIS, Hugin panos for landscape context, etc) this is a real pain.
There's a huge gap between the existence of some library routines in NASA Vision Workbench, or OpenCV, and an application that can be deployed to do useful work. One typical attempt was Oxford Archaeology -- https://launchpad.net/stereophoto -- but unfortunately, in the usual manner, it got nowhere beyond a single small code dump some years ago. Many of the projects that do exist (Stereo, jSVR http://svr.sourceforge.net/, the voxel stuff) just aren't usable for general purposes. If I were thirty years younger, I'd tackle it myself :-( -D. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Hugin and other free panoramic software" group. A list of frequently asked questions is available at: http://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin_FAQ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hugin-ptx
