Research notes / SIGGRAPH 2024
Keeping a large site navigable in 3D
A kilometre-long survey poses a different viewing problem from a single tower. Most of the captured detail is far from the camera at any given moment.
What changed
Kerbl and colleagues train portions of a large capture separately, then assemble them into a hierarchy. The renderer can select a coarser representation for distant parts of the scene.
In the field
A survey team following a line of pylons needs to move between two scales. Start with the corridor to locate the correct span, then approach the fitting of interest. During a review, record the source image for that fitting so a colleague can inspect the same evidence later.
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