I used my Google Glass today to capture photos hands-free at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore.  Then the photos were sent to Autodesk's 123D Catch, and assembled into a mesh, and cleaned up in Meshmixer.




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Well, I was playing Ingress and everyone who's anyone knows that around the Washington Monument in Baltimore there's a boatload of portals to be had, always changing hands between the resistance and the enlightenment. These portals are all at the sculptures, and many are right in front of the Walters Art Museum.  Since the museum is free, I wandered in, and looked for a good piece to scan.  I've scanned over a dozen in the museum so far, mostly at the Artbytes Hackathon, but I somehow missed Marcus Aurelius last time.  It was literally a stroll-by scan job.  I was in and out of the museum in under 10 minutes, and captured a few sculptures.

I just walked around the work, repeating, "ok glass, take a picture" over and over, 30 shots in total.  No real care in aiming the shot.  I just looked at it and that's it.  Then I manually uploaded the photos from Google Autobackup to 123D Catch on my computer and proceeded as normal with the regular scanning/123d process.


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Check out my latest project, GlassKap a privacy cover and other fun accessories for Google Glass.


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