Ways of creating models

[sei0o]

I tried creating models of my room from 236 pictures taken using my iPhone 6S (12MP). It took 4.5 hours for execution of MeshRoom on Google Colab which is free.

Pikachu and friends:

Piles of books:

Entire view:

Pictures and outputs (.obj + .stl + textures) are available here. Snapshots above show that surfaces such as walls and desks are kind of rough. 100+ images aren't enough? On the other hand small stuff like stuffed toys and laptops look nice.

I'm going to compare several methods to create models, which are MeshRoom + Colab, MVE + my laptops, MVE + Colab, 3DF Zephyr etc... It is helpful that somebody tries to create models using materials provided in the link above by their own GPUs or environments.

[sei0o]

If anyone is interested in using Colab, give this 👍 then I will write some docs.

[TURX]

Unfortunately, Google Colab is not available in China or can be accessed slowly (by illegal proxy servers) because of the great firewall.

An approximate list of websites blocked by the Chinese government can be found from the following file (decrypted). (including almost all Google services)
gfwlist.txt

One game-lover from China-side has a computer with Nvidia GTX2080, so I will let him to try to build more complicated models and test the effects on his computer.

Maybe Colab is useful for other Japan-side participants.

[d4wnin9]

Give us your photo on OneDrive and we'll model it for you!

[sei0o]

I tried modelling with some parameters changed but couldn't make out how they worked. Gonna switch to small stuff which are easier & faster to experiment.

[d4wnin9]

It's not good to use unity to load a model, the texture becomes rough.
It's hard to set up blender, but it loads clearly.
The best one is meshlab, it's load easily and clearly.

[TURX]

I found a way to combine the two sides of texture (as for now we have only built models for one side) by Blender: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XjVuyueg7w, and a way to join multiple objects for the cases combining separate textures with different sizes (for example, the inside of the room and the outside of the door, because it is impossible to take photos of the outside of a modern room) by Blender: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLoKjR8H-JQ.

I took photos of my room and a book, but Meshroom on my Ubuntu 20.04 refused to work. I have already submitted an issue to Meshroom and uploaded the images to OneDrive.