First Scans With Flex.
First Scans With Flex.
Got my first chance to spend some time with FlexScan. I did a careful calibration with 15mm cal panel and scanned the gear case that I had posted here a month ago. I tried to be a through as possible so I could compare apples to apples. The settings in flex are all at the default including smoothing and clean up. I have a bit of a sync issue between my projector and IS cameras and it is leading to a bit of surface roughness. This required applying a bit more smoothing than I would like to use normally. David seems to be a bit less sensitive to this but I haven't tweaked anything in flex so I'm sure I can improve things here. Here are screen grabs of the final model (red-Flex, Blue/Green- David). The final mesh in both is a fusion of about 65 scans.
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Yea the david/HP scan looks sharper for the reasons you mentioned.
I'm curious as to which software was faster when aligning the scans? That's the part of HP3DScan that always irked me the most
Also roughly what size is the part? I'm just trying to get a better idea of how big of a thing you can scan in relation to the size if the calibration board you used.
I'm curious as to which software was faster when aligning the scans? That's the part of HP3DScan that always irked me the most
Also roughly what size is the part? I'm just trying to get a better idea of how big of a thing you can scan in relation to the size if the calibration board you used.
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Looks like a great first scan! Scan looks nice for your first test.
As you've mentioned the sync issue might be causing some loss of sharpness, the only other issue I can think of is if smooth or precise merge was used.
Lastly FS3D is sensitive regarding the calibration panel, so for the last touch of sharpness, we generally recommend using one of our cal boards or a precise checkerboard, as you'll lose that last bit of of crispness due to a bit of calibration drift.
As you've mentioned the sync issue might be causing some loss of sharpness, the only other issue I can think of is if smooth or precise merge was used.
Lastly FS3D is sensitive regarding the calibration panel, so for the last touch of sharpness, we generally recommend using one of our cal boards or a precise checkerboard, as you'll lose that last bit of of crispness due to a bit of calibration drift.
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Nice job Micr0!
Is there a way to tune the number or dimension of stripes to increase the sharpness?
I understand the importance of patterns. Mine were printed with an inket, the worst scenario.
But I started in David with the same printed pattern's quality, and I got good sharpness (and bad alignments) very soon.
Differences in the two scans of Micro are evident. We have to say that he comes from a huge experience in 3D scanning with David HP.
Do you think this sharpness can be easily matched tuning FS3D?
I was suprised by the low number of projections/pattern required by FS3D.contactpolyga wrote: ↑28 Jan 2021, 18:26 Lastly FS3D is sensitive regarding the calibration panel, so for the last touch of sharpness, we generally recommend using one of our cal boards or a precise checkerboard, as you'll lose that last bit of of crispness due to a bit of calibration drift.
Is there a way to tune the number or dimension of stripes to increase the sharpness?
I understand the importance of patterns. Mine were printed with an inket, the worst scenario.
But I started in David with the same printed pattern's quality, and I got good sharpness (and bad alignments) very soon.
Differences in the two scans of Micro are evident. We have to say that he comes from a huge experience in 3D scanning with David HP.
Do you think this sharpness can be easily matched tuning FS3D?
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Re: Calibration,contactpolyga wrote: ↑28 Jan 2021, 18:26 Looks like a great first scan! Scan looks nice for your first test.
As you've mentioned the sync issue might be causing some loss of sharpness, the only other issue I can think of is if smooth or precise merge was used.
Lastly FS3D is sensitive regarding the calibration panel, so for the last touch of sharpness, we generally recommend using one of our cal boards or a precise checkerboard, as you'll lose that last bit of of crispness due to a bit of calibration drift.
Would that be reflected in the values reported for the reprojection and error deviation?
What would ideal Reprojection Error and Error Deviation numbers be?
For this scan/calibration I have:
Reprojection Error = 32.69µ
Deviation Error + 19.7µ
BTW I get Deviation error , but What is "Reprojection Error"?
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Yes, there's advanced settings with a bunch of settings including number of patterns - increasing them will improve detail slightly.
I was suprised by the low number of projections/pattern required by FS3D.
Is there a way to tune the number or dimension of stripes to increase the sharpness?
I understand the importance of patterns. Mine were printed with an inket, the worst scenario.
But I started in David with the same printed pattern's quality, and I got good sharpness (and bad alignments) very soon.
Differences in the two scans of Micro are evident. We have to say that he comes from a huge experience in 3D scanning with David HP.
Do you think this sharpness can be easily matched tuning FS3D?
On sharpness in FS3D, yes definitely given that FOV, i would expect it should be producing sharpness closer to the David output, although I don't know the exact issue on why it's much worse but Projector, camera and calibration variations or camera settings as well that the IS camera driver is pretty new.
For existing examples of semi pro FS3D DIY configuration, I think this is one of the coolest examples. It's not quite DIY it's the same general idea...
https://www.mechscan.co.uk/macro-3d-scanner/
If there's time in the next couple weeks, i can ask one of the guys here to put together a reference system with reference scans -
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Those numbers look pretty good given a 200mm or so FOV. TBH it's been many years so i don't remember the exact math on these numbers but as far as I remember.Micr0 wrote: ↑28 Jan 2021, 22:12
Re: Calibration,
Would that be reflected in the values reported for the reprojection and error deviation?
What would ideal Reprojection Error and Error Deviation numbers be?
For this scan/calibration I have:
Reprojection Error = 32.69µ
Deviation Error + 19.7µ
BTW I get Deviation error , but What is "Reprojection Error"?
Reprojection is that it took given a known, position pixel location, it ran the triangulation and that's how far it was off from your calibration board. ie. Your square size was suppose to be 10mm given the calibration, it took those pixels and ran it through the calibration and that's how far it was off from the ideal size it was suppose to be.
Deviation if i remember correctly is the step size from a single pixel, x to x or xy to xy..
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Thankscontactpolyga wrote: ↑29 Jan 2021, 00:16Those numbers look pretty good given a 200mm or so FOV. TBH it's been many years so i don't remember the exact math on these numbers but as far as I remember.Micr0 wrote: ↑28 Jan 2021, 22:12
Re: Calibration,
Would that be reflected in the values reported for the reprojection and error deviation?
What would ideal Reprojection Error and Error Deviation numbers be?
For this scan/calibration I have:
Reprojection Error = 32.69µ
Deviation Error + 19.7µ
BTW I get Deviation error , but What is "Reprojection Error"?
Reprojection is that it took given a known, position pixel location, it ran the triangulation and that's how far it was off from your calibration board. ie. Your square size was suppose to be 10mm given the calibration, it took those pixels and ran it through the calibration and that's how far it was off from the ideal size it was suppose to be.
Deviation if i remember correctly is the step size from a single pixel, x to x or xy to xy..
I did a bit of manual editing and cleaning and tried Precise Fusion. It's a bit better.
I'll mess around with it and re scan it when I get a chance.
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I'd be very interested to know more about how he adapted the lens to that Acer projector.contactpolyga wrote: ↑29 Jan 2021, 00:05
Yes, there's advanced settings with a bunch of settings including number of patterns - increasing them will improve detail slightly.
On sharpness in FS3D, yes definitely given that FOV, i would expect it should be producing sharpness closer to the David output, although I don't know the exact issue on why it's much worse but Projector, camera and calibration variations or camera settings as well that the IS camera driver is pretty new.
For existing examples of semi pro FS3D DIY configuration, I think this is one of the coolest examples. It's not quite DIY it's the same general idea...
https://www.mechscan.co.uk/macro-3d-scanner/
If there's time in the next couple weeks, i can ask one of the guys here to put together a reference system with reference scans -
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Well you remove the old one and put in a new one..