Tom Foster

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Congratulations on the RC/Epic tie-up. Yes, in general, facilities and procedures that help substantially with photogrammetry's inherent problem with capturing the flat or straight features which p...

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• Tom Foster
• April 06, 2021 15:12
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Much appreciated. Now to try capturing multi-room building interiors?! I've found no method that works yet.

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• Tom Foster
• September 25, 2020 09:50
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Yes but AFAIK the repeating border pattern, rows of Xmas trees, the repeating yellow pattern of the Clubs card will neither help nor hinder RC to disinguish one part of the pattern from another - w...

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• Tom Foster
• December 12, 2019 17:43
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Depends on distance, I agree - I was within 2.5m in a domestic room.

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• Tom Foster
• December 11, 2019 13:56
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That's why I used screwed-up balls, say 40mm across, of colourful patterned wrapping paper pinned to the surfaces at say 50cm spacing. With fine nail/pin/brads and a manual pin-push tool such as ht...

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• Tom Foster
• December 11, 2019 13:29
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Erik, that is fantastic clarification - thanks. Would my question "Would in fact fewer 'without stickers' pics be OK, covering everything but with less fanatical overlap?" be true? Jonathan, that l...

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• Tom Foster
• December 11, 2019 11:41
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"chromatic noise pattern video projection" - whattt? Sounds good - can you give a hint in 'for dummies' language? "Everything has to be aligned (with and without stickers) .... The stickers will he...

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• Tom Foster
• December 11, 2019 10:03
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Erik Kubiňan CR  said: "you can as well shoot the interior clean and then shoot it again without moving any objects with the "stickers". Then once you're happy with the result you can use the clean...

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• Tom Foster
• December 11, 2019 08:21
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It's strange that even ultra-high-res photography (assuming sharpness already) doesn't seem to significantly improve RC's ability to detect small features in flat plaster - if only paintbrush marks...

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• Tom Foster
• December 10, 2019 17:59
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Erik, that is extremely helpful, for a RC representative (?) to say clearly that laser scan is the straightforward way with 'clean' interiors. In years, I haven't seen anyone say that clearly on th...

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• Tom Foster
• December 10, 2019 09:53
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