Structure From Motion Workflow - VisualSFM, CMPMVS, Meshlab, Blender

A workflow using free software to convert a series of photos of an object to an editable textured mesh in Blender (or other modelling program.

NOTE NOVEMBER 2017: Also see October 2017 note below. For those needing cmpmvs.exe, try this link if the ones below are broken:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/80savnaou9c...


NOTE OCTOBER 2017: The links to CMVS-PMVS on the Visual SFM homepage were apparently broken sometime in late 2017. But a fellow on the VSFM Google Group supplied a new link. You can find it here: http://grail.cs.washington.edu/downlo..., which should eventually take you here: https://github.com/pmoulon/CMVS-PMVS, where you should download CMVS-PMVS-master.zip.


Here is a link to a zip file containing the photos used in the tutorial (The zip file is about 4Mb in size)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/cgdjgjpudcf...

Special thanks to :

ChangChang Wu for VisualSFM
http://ccwu.me/vsfm/

Michal Jancosek for CMPMVS
http://ptak.felk.cvut.cz/sfmservice/w...

The developers of MeshLab
http://www.meshlab.org/

The Blender Foundation
http://www.blender.org/

And to ForensicAnimations for a similar tutorial that got me started
   • Getting Started with CMPMVS