The Hot Pepper

We are a Mac family all the way.

not if you game on the pc lol... or run civil 3d.

Always Apple. Boot Camp when slummin' ...

c3d is already unstable enough... no way it would run virtually.

Probably runs better on the Mac.

PS - it's not virtual.

Oh is that a dual boot thing?

do they even sell macs with workstation gpus?

You can go further these days with a Mac homie, Thunderbolt-attached, external GPU's. I use them for 3D SfM work. Of course, you can also just fire up massive GPU-servers on AWS, too.

wtf is 3d sfm? when i google that all i get is animated porn.

structure from motion? that sounds cool... what do you do with that?

Yeah ...

Granite statue work. Walk around small one's with a GoPro, or fly around the drone around the big one's, and then digitize it using SfM.

wow thats cool... can you reproduce the geometry just from video? sounds like it would not be terribly accurate to me.

i mean for like machining... not for like what ever... video games.

Yes, and it's close enough for baseball. The most work is in the post-processing toolchain to compensate for the spherical aberation of the GoPro - which is hardly rectinlinear. When I use the DSLR (5D+17L T/S), it's much better, because that lens balls in terms of being much more rectilinear-like. And I have some parlor tricks.

I am like the SfM whisperer at this point, really. Clean up the mesh in Meshlab and Blender, and get it run on an Breton ShapeMill. BOOM.

When there price-point on drone's that can reliably carry a 5D and a heavy-ass lens comes around, it'll be tits.

so you can machine stone statues with this tech? thats pimp as f**k.

how does the camera track its point of origin? little marker stickers or something?

the system we use for regular work uses marker-points like you mention, but SfM uses the relation between the pictures, it's all relative.