Small Object Photogrammetry with Agisoft Metashape Professional
This tutorial provides a step-by-step workflow for creating high-quality 3D models from a series of photographs using Agisoft’s Metashape Professional. Metashape has become the industry standard for archaeologists and other researchers. It is useful for reconstructing everything from small objects to entire landscapes. This software is deeply discounted for students and educators, and anyone can use the trial version of the software. This tutorial focuses on small objects like artifacts.
Links:
Download Agisoft Metashape Pro - https://www.agisoft.com/downloads/ins...
Education license for Agisoft Metashape Pro - https://www.agisoft.com/buy/online-st...
Sample Cross Polarization Setup - https://www.pix-pro.com/blog/cross-po...
Download tutorial images - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lo33...
View the 3D model - https://skfb.ly/oBERu
Timestamps
0:06 - Topics for this tutorial.
2:07 - Setting preferences.
2:31 - Adding and aligning photos of first chunk.
3:55 - Adjusting the reconstruction region of first chunk.
5:42 - Build (dense) point cloud of first chunk.
7:28 - Build mesh (3D model) of first chunk.
8:26 - Build texture for the first chunk’s mesh.
10:38 - Texturing the model.
9:38 - Removing unwanted parts of the first chunk’s mesh.
10:43 - Generate masks for first chunk’s photographs.
11:37 - Repeat above steps for second chunk.
12:05 - Removing unwanted parts of the second chunk’s mesh.
12:45 - Auto-align and merge chunks.
15:30 - Build mesh and texture for merged chunk.
16:44 - Scale final model.
18:10 - Exporting final model and texture.
19:04 - Manually aligning chunks (when automatic alignment fails).
23:31 – Creating, texturing, and scaling the manually aligned model.
Background Music - https://pixabay.com/music/pulses-smoo...