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REFLECTION Reality Capture

11/10/2024
I experimented with one professional-level photogrammetry production tool (besides the many mobile options) – RealityCapture. Unlike PolyCam, RealityCapture offers significant control over the production process, with a distinct workflow configurable...
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REFLECTION InkleWriter

11/10/2024
InkleWriter is a tool that is similar to Twine for creating interactive fiction. It is web-based and has many similar features, including the ability to save working progress in the...
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REFLECTION Twine

11/10/2024
Twine is an open-source tool for developing interactive fiction. It outputs the results in formats accessible via the web without special plugins or players. It does this with support for...
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REFLECTION Urban Paint

11/10/2024
Urban Paint is a commercial plug-in for SketchUp that makes adding roads, buildings and urban furniture to SketchUp models easier. I purchased this while creating a model of Daily Plaza...
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REFLECTION SketchFab

11/10/2024
Active for over a decade, SketchFab is a platform for distributing 3D models. When describing it to others I often find myself calling it “YouTube for 3D models”, because the...
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REFLECTION Rec Room

11/10/2024
Rec Room is one of the most advanced of the extant “metaverse” apps, despite very clearly being aimed at children. Again, I focused on building in Rec Room and though...
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REFLECTION VR Sketch

11/10/2024
SketchUp was by far my favourite tool to use in the development of 3D environments during the course of my study. However, SketchUp is predominantly aimed at a market of...
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REFLECTION Matterport

11/10/2024
Matterport is a service and set of authoring tools that generates virtual representations of spaces from 360-degree images and allows their publication. Those spaces can be “stitched” together, allowing contiguous...
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REFLECTION ThingLink

11/10/2024
ThingLink is a well-established visual authoring tool for creating embedded, interactive media for the web. It has expanded support for immersive (360) photos in recent iterations. There’s a suite of...
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REFLECTION Modelur

11/10/2024
Modelur is a SketchUp extension, which adds functionality to SketchUp. Its main purpose is to add architectural features to maps imported in SketchUp quickly and easily. Rather than being a...