You can export undistorted photos from photoscan and use that directly
in Nuke 

from memory: 

tools->undistort photos 

Misho 

On 12.05.2014 23:07, Nathan Rusch wrote:

> I think one of the 3DEqualizer distortion models is based on the Brown model. 
> If that's the case, there's a good chance you can use their distortion plugin 
> to get the same result.
> 
> Details here:
> 
> http://www.3dequalizer.com/index.php#?site=tech_docs&id=110216_01 [1]
> 
> -Nathan
> 
> -----Original Message----- From: Schneider, Abraham
> Sent: Monday, May 12, 2014 5:25 AM
> To: Nuke user discussion
> Subject: [Nuke-users] Photoscan lens distortion in Nuke?
> 
> Hi there!
> 
> I'm just playing around with Agisoft Photoscan 
> (http://www.agisoft.ru/products/photoscan/standard/ [2]) to deal with a large 
> set where I have to do some CG additions in several shots. Most of the shots 
> are with locked camera. So having a rough temp model of this outdoor set (big 
> square with some buildings surrounding it) would be really helpful to 
> correctly position the CG buildings.
> 
> Reconstructing the set with Photoscan from my DSLR images worked quite nice. 
> The resulting model should be more than enough to help creating these shots. 
> My idea now was to add single frames from each of my locked camera shots 
> (ARRI Alexa) into Photoscan, align these images as well and export the found 
> camera positions with the model and use these virtual cameras for my 
> renderings.
> 
> Problem now is: to align all the images, Photoscan uses an complex (?) lens 
> distortion algorithm and undistorts all images before doing there alignment. 
> So the undistorted images match fine to the model from Photoscan. But to do 
> my comps, I'd have to it the other way around: distort the CG renderings and 
> merge them with my original Alexa footage. So I'd need a node in Nuke to 
> apply the same lens distortion as Photoscan does. I get the values from 
> Photoscan, but which node can I use to do the distortion?
> 
> I think, Photoscan uses the same model as they use in their free lens 
> distortion software: http://www.agisoft.ru/products/lens/ [3], which mentions 
> a 'Brown's distortion model'. Anyone of you knows if there is a node in Nuke 
> (or Nukepedia or so) which uses the same algorithms? Or any other idea?
> 
> Thanks, Abraham
> 
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Links:
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[1]
http://www.3dequalizer.com/index.php#?site=tech_docs&id=110216_01
[2] http://www.agisoft.ru/products/photoscan/standard/
[3] http://www.agisoft.ru/products/lens/
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