Tag Archives: reality capture
xyHt Digital Magazine: November 2024
xyHt magazine’s November 2024 issue focuses on building information modeling, with an in-depth look at the construction industry’s slowness to adopt the evolving technology. As always, if you don’t have a subscription to our print edition, or if someone else in the office has snaffled your copy, don’t fret, here is the digital edition. Click here or...
Software is a Service
Transforming the Future with Reality Capture Software By Andreas Gerster Compared to software, reality capture hardware has traditionally attracted the lion’s share of attention. Lasers, robots, cameras, and UAVs breathe modernity and innovation. They are market disruptors, make for impressive photographs, and they are tangible. Ultimately, they are the very essence of the future. In...
Leveraging Point Clouds
Above: This image illustrates the transition from point clouds to modeled deliverables. These non-BIM solids were later used for com-putational fluid dynamics analysis to ensure proper airflow throughout the room. Three ways you can derive value from point clouds past the pre-design phase. By Daniel Chapek Reality capture is a powerful way to digitize the...
Surveying
Above: This bridge in Baltimore took 1 hour and 45 minutes to scan: 550 feet of roadway or 1.5 acres, including all the beams for the underside of the bridge for clearance and engineering design. Reality Capture, Targetless Registration, the End of Dedicated Field Crews As I stood in a courtyard of the Walter Reed National...
