I recently read an article that said it’s essential to write for 5-10 minutes daily. It makes sense; people work out to train muscles, practice to improve at sports, and, I assume, write to refine their writing. Today I will talk about how I want to integrate photogrammetry into this website.

Art has never been my specialty, perhaps just due to a short attention span or indecisiveness. Still, I’ve never been able to use a brush on a canvas and be satisfied by the jarring, almost abstract result. I did get quite good at writing code in the Unity engine, but without any ability to create art assets, I can’t help but feel like Wozniak without Jobs. That’s where photogrammetry comes in! Photogrammetry (from my limited understanding) is a magic compilation of algorithms that transforms hundreds of images of an object into a 3D model. Instead of spending hours in Bender trying to make a rock, I can take photos of a real rock and end up with the same result in an equivalent time frame. But what does this have to do with my website?

I rarely finish things, so any photogrammetry work I do for a game will probably end up in the trash can with the rest of the failed project. To prevent the work from going to waste, I wish to make an easily publicly accessible library of photogrammetry assets, both as a showcase of my work for others and as well as giving me a reason to learn about the horrifying world of typescript. The plan is for my “gallery” of assets to be accessed using a QR code, allowing the user to see the object using mobile AR. For example, McLaren lets you look at their newest supercar using this method.