Areograph
Simulations through photogrammetry.
At Areo, I worked on in-house point-cloud manipulation, renderer tooling and photogrammetry visualisations for simulations, technical demos and commercial products.
About Areograph
A closer look.
Photogrammetry. I worked on 3D point-cloud manipulation and scene reconstruction for large-scale scans, technical demos and products - including for Siggraph 2010.
Shape every point. I contributed to Areograph and their in-house AreoPlayer programme by developing projection tooling for point-cloud manipulation and reconstruction.
This enabled me to reposition collections of points using ray-casting and reconstruct missing geometry in scenes like the Dunedin Railway Station.
History preserved. The Otago Settler's Museum was undergoing renovations and had to take down its Smith Gallery, which held over 400 portraits of Otago settlers. Areograph created a virtual version of the Smith Gallery in a touch-screen booth before it was taken down.
Reconstructed reality. I was actively involved in reconstructing 3D point-cloud data, mapping interactive picture-frame content to scene geometry and building 3D models to faithfully reconstruct the Settler's Museum exhibition.
Ideas in motion. I used Blender 3D on a number of prototypes, including a WRX demo for Bizarre Creations’ Project Gotham Racing.
I also modeled and animated terrain scenery and wrote Python scripts to process mining scan data for Rio Tinto mining excavation training videos.
AUC CreateWorld Conference
From Photo to Photorealistic - Digitising the Planet
I presented a session on photorealistic reconstruction and digital capture at AUC CreateWorld 2015.
Toitū Otago Settlers Museum's Auditorium
Digitising Dunedin - Pecha Kucha #20
I presented 20 slides in 20 minutes to discuss technology for the preservation of heritage buildings in Dunedin.
Stuff
Latest Breaking News.
Stuff has covered a number of projects I've worked on, including Areo, Waterboy, Holo and RefillNZ.
Otago Daily Times
Independent Voice of the South.
Otago Daily Times profiled Areo's Casebook work and Areograph's photorealistic camera technology, including its international recognition and possible simulation applications.
World Summit Award
United Nations World Summit Award recognition.
Areograph technology and Casebook received World Summit Award recognition for creativity and innovation in ICT.
Beehive.govt.nz
The official website of the New Zealand Government.
Beehive.govt.nz recognised Areograph as a World Summit Award finalist.
- Collaborations
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- Role
- Developer
- Category
- Windows
- Completed
- September 2013
- Skills
- Windows
- C++, OpenGL, Qt, Python
- Areograph, Point cloud manipulation
- Blender 3D