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Special Features
PhotoModeler has many powerful features, which is why our award-winning software is widely used for modeling and measuring real world objects and scenes.
Check out these special features:
- Google Earth Export:
PhotoModeler has a number of export formats but a very interesting one is the Google Earth KML/KMZ format. You can easily put a model generated in PhotoModeler into the geographical context provided by the Google Earth world viewer.
- NURBS Surfaces: NURBS Surface construction features allow for modeling of complex curved surfaces.
- NURBS Curve Modeling: High quality NURBS Curve tool provides great modeling capabilities for objects/scenes with curved edges.
- Silhouettes Solids Modeling: Provides the ability to quickly model complex and organic shapes.
- Shapes: Shapes are geometric solids like boxes, wedges, pyramids, etc. that provide a very fast way to add man-made objects to a scene by marking just a sub-set of the shape's edges on the photo(s).
- Cylinder Modeling: Model and measure cylindrical shaped objects such as pipes and pillars.
- Texture Extraction and Ortho-Photos: Extract images from surfaces by removing any perspective and shape distortions and use them as texture maps in rendering programs, or export them as orthographic photomaps.
- Sub-Pixel Target Marking: High precision point measurement with circular targets based on advanced computer vision techniques.
- Control Points and Perspective Matching: Enter known 3D point locations into PhotoModeler and accurate camera positions and angles are generated automatically. Improve camera geometry or match a camera to a perspective photograph for a rendering program.
- Edge Modeling: Model linear features even when distinct end points cannot be matched across the photographs.
- Offset Points: Create 3d points that are offset along a coordinate axis or a vector defined by two points. Good for jigs and evidence markers or accurate modeling of points that cannot be targetted.
- Constraints: Enter known relationships into the project (e.g. parallel, perpendicular, collinear, etc) to fine-tune processing.
- InverseCamera: Enter a few known control points or constraints and the focal length and position of an unknown camera is automatically calculated for projects involving single or multiple photos.
- Single Photograph Support: Use InverseCamera with several known control points or object constraints to model from a single photo. This allows the use of photographs from historical archives, bystanders, and third parties for producing 3D data.
- Automated Tools for Surface Models: Automated marking, referencing, and surfacing aid in high-density surface model creation.
- Dimensions on Photos: Dimension lines with measurements and annotations directly on the photographs.
- Project Merge: Combine two or more PhotoModeler projects into a single project.
- Programmability: Use a DDE (Dynamic Data Exchange) interface to control certain functions in PhotoModeler and to have data fed in through other Windows applications.
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And there is much, much, more! Please also see the main features or a detailed and complete list of all features.
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