Point Cloud to Mesh
(Check out the rest of the Kinect section for more tutorials.) At US$150, the Kinect camera is the world’s first home 3D scanner, but the point clouds it records aren’t immediately usable in 3D...
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(Check out the rest of the Kinect section for more tutorials.) The Kinect has two basic tricks–first, it grabs a depth map, and second, it figures out the joint coordinates of your skeleton from the...
View ArticleKinect and XML
(Check out the rest of the Kinect section for more tutorials.) Update: Our XML-based Kinect mocap tool now has its own website, kinecttopin.com. For general Kinect setup help, look here. To record...
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Victoria Nece and I have released a compiled app and UI panel for getting Kinect mocap data into After Effects—it’s called KinectToPin. For a step-by-step guide, read through this tutorial.
View ArticleDepth Camera Roundup
Cameras that can use… 1. …either OpenNI (PrimeSense) or Microsoft drivers: Microsoft Kinect 1 for Xbox (original version) … $80 Notes: You can’t beat the original on price and flexibility–although it...
View ArticleRGBD Sequences in Maya
This will be expanded soon. In the meantime—can you edit the camera position of an RGBD Toolkit sequence in Maya? 1. You have a virtual camera in Maya that you can place however you want, so the simple...
View ArticleMotion Capture: Kinect 1 vs. 2
The Kinect 2 is supposed to have superior skeleton tracking, so I tested it against the Kinect 1 in a single-camera setup of iPi Studio. Conclusion: a single camera is always going to have trouble when...
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Scanning Clay Models
Step 1. Build a model with armature wire and air-drying clay. Step 2. Scan… (to be continued)
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