March 2018
Beginner to intermediate
584 pages
14h 31m
English
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PostGIS Cookbook - Second Edition
by Stephen Vincent Mather, Pedro Wightman, Bborie Park, Thomas Kraft, Mayra Zurbarán, Paolo Corti
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How to do it...
Download VisualSFM from http://ccwu.me/vsfm/. In a console terminal, execute the following:
Visualsfm <IMAGES_FOLDER>
VisualSFM will start rendering the 3D, model using as input a folder with images. It will take a couple of hours to process. Then, when it finishes, it will return a point cloud file.
We can view this data in a program such as MeshLab at http://meshlab.sourceforge.net/. A good tutorial on using MeshLab to view point clouds can be found at http://www.cse.iitd.ac.in/~mcs112609/Meshlab%20Tutorial.pdf.
The following image shows what our point cloud looks like when viewed in MeshLab:
In the VisualSFM output, there ...