Given the reasonable success of the vent rings, I moved onto solving other areas of the ship.
Above, about 6 months later and a greatly reduced hard drive space, I had made some significant virtual progress in my computer.
Above, photogrammetry result after managing and processing over 700 images.
Above, another view of the textured mesh result.
August 2021 -
Starting to block in surfaces using the photogrammetry result as my master reference. The surfaces are created and then floated back and fourth to match the mesh result as best as possible.
After getting much of the preliminary surfaces established, I then tried my hand at some rough photo alignments, which are far from perfect using the tools that I have, but encouraging to check the key features.
I used this early ILM construction picture to validate the positions of the 16x radially placed lightening holes in the plywood core. It also helps to determine the overall thickness of the core ring and inner diameter. And it verifies the positions of the armature and holes in the upper and lower acrylic domes.
Above, about 6 months later and a greatly reduced hard drive space, I had made some significant virtual progress in my computer.
Above, photogrammetry result after managing and processing over 700 images.
Above, another view of the textured mesh result.
August 2021 -
Starting to block in surfaces using the photogrammetry result as my master reference. The surfaces are created and then floated back and fourth to match the mesh result as best as possible.
After getting much of the preliminary surfaces established, I then tried my hand at some rough photo alignments, which are far from perfect using the tools that I have, but encouraging to check the key features.
I used this early ILM construction picture to validate the positions of the 16x radially placed lightening holes in the plywood core. It also helps to determine the overall thickness of the core ring and inner diameter. And it verifies the positions of the armature and holes in the upper and lower acrylic domes.