Further reading

Author: Jennifer Wexler ~ Published: 16 October 2018 ~ Updated: 05 August 2019

Thank you for coming to my workshop and getting involved with the Festival of Archaeology. I hope you will now go out and create great 3D. This is a very basic tutorial session and there are far more things to learn.

If you would like to learn more, I suggest the following reading:

Charters, training and metadata standards

• ReACH
• CS3DP
• The London Charter
• Applied Digital Documentation in the Historic Environment Short Guide 13

Tutorials

• Abby Crawford, How to set up a successful photogrammetry project
• Beau Kromberg Using 3D Scans for Outreach and Education at Wayne State
• Samantha Thi Porter, a digital curation specialist at the University of Minnesota, video series explaining basic workflow with Agisoft Photoscan (now MetaShape)
• Az Balabanian Getting started with Photogrammetry — with an iPhone camera Capturing the world in a future-proof data form
• MicroPasts guides
• Guide för publicering av 3D-modeller
• Historic England Guide to Photogrammetric Applications for Cultural Heritage

Software

• Agisoft Photoscan
• Capturing Reality
• Visual SFM
• Wikipedia list of software comparisons
• Meshroom
• Roundup of the Best Photogrammetry Software for 2019 (including some free options!)

Raw data to practise with

Dan Pett (Head of Digital, Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge) has a large folder on Google Drive with hundreds of GB of data for various models. You could use this for practise.

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