3DF Zephyr Dev Status (Eggplant)
The next version of 3DF Zephyr (Codename Eggplant) is already in development.
The tentative release date is still not being set.
Here's a brief report of the planned features in development and their status.
| Note: this is not the final feature lists: new planned features will be unveiled as we get closer to release! |
Major features and updates
| Photoconsistency Improvements | The photoconsistency algorithm of 3DF Zephyr has been furtherly optimized to allow better management of high frequencies during the similarity check between pair of images. | Advanced Development (75%) |
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| MVS Improvements | The Multiview stereo depth map extraction have been improved. Finer details and thin structures are recovered better. In addition, the aggregation phase is also faster than before. | Ready for testing (90%) |
| 3DF Scarlet Improvements | 3DF Scarlet’s user experience will significantly change thanks to a “non-blocking” rendering that will ensure a better and more fluid scan visualization within the software. In addition, users will be able to automatically perform some basic preprocessing on a project’s scans such as: range filtering, sampling distance filtering , sampling limit filtering. | Ready for testing (90%) |
| Modular save | Zep project files have been reorganized in a modular way. Point clouds, meshes and textured mesh are now unloaded on disk and loaded only on demand. This lead to dramatic speed-ups of loading and saving time. | Ready for testing (90%) |
| Marker detection | 3DF Zephyr already allows for automatic coded target detection; however, our latest implementation now improves the manual marker detection algorithm to find the cross pattern at their center more accurately. | Ready for testing (90%) |
| Python Console | The new Python console enables a brand-new way to interact with the 3DF Zephyr workspace and its objects. It’s not meant to supersede the batching tool but allow more experienced users to automate and simplify specific workflows | Advanced Development (75%) |
| Volume of Interest | The Volume of Interest (VoI) is a new experimental feature designed to aid users during the visualization and editing of huge datasets. The user specifies a three-dimensional clipping region by visually editing it (works very similar to the bounding box editing tool). | Ready for testing (90%) |
| Sphere detection | Sphere detection tool targeted to the forensics industry. | Ready for testing (90%) |
| New Control Point interface | New control points interface. You can now add multiple control points without closing the dialog. The toolbar has been reorganized in a more user friendly way and the image loading and caching is much faster and non blocking. | Ready for testing (90%) |
Minor bug fixes and updates
| General multithreaded improvements | Multithread algorithms that use a considerable amount of ram have been sped up, thanks to better memory management. This can lead to substantial speed-ups in some parts, especially on CPUs with a lot of cores. | In Development (50%) |
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| SfM improvements | Keypoints extraction and matching have been improved for increased accuracy during the structure from motion phase. | In Development (50%) |
| Map widget | A new map widget during the project creation makes it simple to split projects into subprojects. | In Development (50%) |
| Faster mesh decimation | The decimation algorithm has been speeded up. This intrinsically speed up also the photoconsistency initialization. | In Development (50%) |
| Advanced settings | The advanced settings dialogs for all the four reconstruction phases have been reorganized for better clarity. | In Development (50%) |
| Custom skybox | You can setup a custom skybox in the Zephyr viewport. | Ready for testing (90%) |
| Metadata.xml importing | Zephyr now imports metadata.xml files automatically specifying mesh and textured mesh reference system. | Ready for testing (90%) |
| Improved marker detection in Scarlet | Markers are detected in a more robust way in Scarlet. | Ready for testing (90%) |
| Improved multiicp in scarlet | The multiicp in scarlet has been improved by adding a prealignement step. | Ready for testing (90%)
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| Scarlet scan prefiltering. | You can now set filters on import in Scarlet. | Ready for testing (90%) |
| 3mf export | You can export in the 3mf format. | Ready for testing (90%) |
| Improved import reference system dialog | The dialog for importing a custom reference system has been improved and now provides more information on importing errors. | Ready for testing (90%) |
| RCP import / export | You can now import and export in the Autodesk RCP format. | Ready for testing (90%) |
| Faster PNG saving | PNG texture saving is now faster | Ready for testing (90%) |
| Improved control points auto-matching | The automatching functionalities for control points has been improved both in terms of speed and accuracy. | Ready for testing (90%) |
| Better pure rotation photo handling | Photo groups with pure rotation, are now handled better during the SfM phase | Ready for testing (90%) |
| Can now import constraints from ptgui project | You can now import custom panorama view and constraints directly from ptgui project files | Ready for testing (90%) |
| Camera rig support | You can now import photos from camera rigs that share an (approximate) center | Ready for testing (90%) |
| Multiband functions bug | Fixed a bug on multiband functions definition, occurring with layer names composed only by numbers. | Ready for testing (90%) |
Other stuff
| Improved FlowEngine interface | More functions have been exposed in FlowEngine | Advanced Development (75%)
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