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Have you ever wondered if your phone is tracking you? If Google Maps is installed on your phone (which is likely the case for iPhone and Android users), the answer is probably yes! Google Maps has a feature most users are not aware of: Google Timeline. This built-in feature was added about a year ago, and allows Maps to keep a very detailed...
Creating a 3D model from a Youtube video (or any video for that matter) is simple, and yields some pretty amazing results. Follow these steps (as shown in detail in the video) to create your own model: Get familiar with photogrammetry. Find a Youtube video appropriate for photogrammetry. The best videos are usually aerial shots of a stationary...
There are many applications that extend the uses for your drone. The DJI Go app is okay, but it leaves much to be desired. These apps help your drone reach its full potential (also be sure to check out the Must Have Drone Accessories): Quick note before we get started: While all of these apps below are great, the quality of your drone footage...
There is no doubt drone footage is great, but colors always seem bland. The raw video is usually low in contrast, low in saturation, and too high/low exposure. How do you fix this? By using a video editor to color correct/grade. These two terms are often misused. Color correcting is fixing the colors to how they really should appear. Color grading...
Time lapses are great. Who wants to watch an hour long video when you can fit that same video into a minute film? Add in a few effects and music, and you have a serious mini-film: This half hour drive wasn’t all that exciting. But sped up 30x? It’s a blast to watch. Using the app FrameLapse, I was able to record this video on my phone...
Drones have many, many uses. One of my favorite ways to use my Phantom 3 drone is photogrammetry. It is very useful to be able to map out an area in 3D. Whether for personal or business use it gives unlimited perspectives of an area. There are many programs and apps that are able to create these models, and I use Altizure (there is also...
Photogrammetry has endless potential. But, it takes practice and a few pieces of advice to get high quality models. Here are 10 tips to making awesome 3D models of everything around you: 1. Don’t take pictures of shiny/reflective objects. It will only screw up the points the software identifies. 2. Take pictures of evenly lit...
Photogrammetry is a fancy term to describe taking 2D images taken from a camera (even a camera phone as I have used) and turning them into a 3D object. How is this possible? The complicated algorithm used in photgrammetry software find points in each 2D image and is able to map it out in 3D space by comparing it to the other images taken. There...
