Southeastern Community College baseball diamonds W.I.P.

Here is what I have accomplished so far.  I have some ways to go, but I did manage to get most of it done.

Added second sign to the college

I forgot that there was a second sign at the college so I managed to take the original model and place it in the second location.

Southeastern Community College sign complete!

Finished completing the sign.  It isn't 100% accurate because I wasn't able to make the height of the rounded top part as accurate as I wanted to be.
Link to model

Southeastern Community College Large Dorm complete!

It's complete!
Link to model

Southeastern Community College Large Dorm WIP

Here is the WIP of the large dorm at SCC.  I managed to do the complexed roofing.  Now all it needs is some texturing and its complete!

Bing Maps image placement to Sketchup models uploaded!

I received a request recently of a tutorial on how to take bird eye images from Bing Maps and apply it to Google Sketchup models.

1490 KBUR radio station model completed!

Radio station model is now complete!
Link to model

3 buildings added to Google Earth layer!

The dorms, vacant building, and the department building have been accepted. I guess the other two models haven't been accepted because they were uploaded very recently.

Southeastern Community College App designed

I decided not to read complex books to create an App download for Iphone and Andriod. Instead, I'll use a online editor to do it for me.

The feeds include the news broadcasted from SCC's Blogger RSS feeds, including their Youtube channel.

Finished Southeastern Community College Metal Barn!

Phew! That is over and done with.
Link to model

Fixed Time Zone

I noticed that my timezone was off by two hours. I re-adjusted it to Central Standard Time.

Southeastern Community College Steel Barn (W.I.P.)

Working on a late project tonight. So far I put in 2 1/2 hours of work and accomplished this so far. I'll do the skinning after I go to sleep.

Southeastern Community College Greenhouse/ Storage Building complete

Finished working on more buildings for SCC.
Link to model

Completed SCC Dorms

Here are the completed dorms.  There is still one large dorm building left to complete.
Link to Sketchup Model

Couple of models being worked on; one project dropped

I've decided to drop the church model due it problems trying to line up the details that I wanted.  I started working on two separate models instead.

The first one is the radio station here in town.  Note that the red and white model was made by someone else and that I needed a tower as part of the model building.

The second project that I'm working on is of the college.  I have changed my mind in building anymore buildings of the college, but since I looked into the buildings again to see how complex they are, it looked not as complicated as I thought it would be.

On track

Sorry for the late entries.  Here is what is going on so far.

I have completed the Southeastern Community College school, including the building that is behind it.  Before I had turned in my first part of the school to Google, I added a building that the school is constructing on that will update the model to current standards.

I added a vacant building on the list for two reasons:  I want to see if someone would be interested in buying it since its on Google Earth and that it was a very easy model to create.









My next project is to work on this building before the fire had destroyed it.

Windows Live Photo program doesn't work right

The program that I've been trying to use for making a photosynth sort of works, but doesn't give the wide panoramic full detail view kind of thing.

Problems with Gigapan and Microsoft ICE stitching software; trying new alternative

I've been having problems using the Gigapan stitching software that it came with the Epic 100.  It freezes at 25% and no matter if I used either my laptop or desktop computer, it would still freeze at 25%.  As for the Microsoft ICE, it freezes and crashes at 75%.

I'm attempting to use Microsoft Live Photo Gallery to make this work right.

Gigapan Epic 100 Review

So I tested the fairly new Gigapan and I found some interesting and shocking things about in using it.

Pros:
-Takes pictures perfectly
-Lines up images nicely
-Semi easy to use

Cons:
-Drains the 6 AA batteries in about an hour and a half

The Gigapan toke some awesome photos in a perfect alignment.  Once you get use to using it or obtaining a manual online for further instructions, you will have a decent panorama image in no time.  What's useful with this device is that it has a robotic arm attachment that can be set up to snap the photos for you.  Also, there is a robotic turning device that is used to turn the device from the positions that you manually set.  You can even pause the device in case of cars or people walking by in the path of the camera.  If a picture was taken or wasn't taken that wasn't needed, you can pause the device and go back to the last position that it messed up on and repeat the picture step.

The downside to this device is that it drains the batteries like crazy.  It's best to either have more than 3 pairs of 6 AA batteries to last you for more than 3 hours worth.  Also, because of the settings your camera requires, depending on the battery life, it would drain in about an hour and a half at the most.  The draining of the battery could be the result because I kept having some problems setting it up or was testing some things out.

Most of the time it displays that it will take a total of 19,000+ or so images to do a single panorama.  This can be fixed by setting up the Gigapans position.  You would have to do this every time you want to take a panorama in a different location of position or else it will end up with a crap load of images.

In conclusion, its a good device, but if you are willing to put up extra money for the Gigapan Epic Pro, it will save the battery hassle by having only 1 battery that it comes with and you can either plug and use it or take it out and charge it separately.

Gigapan Epic 100

The results so far from the test of the Gigapan Epic 100 is marvelous!  Unfortunately it's a bit too late now to start a complete panorama sequence due to the lack of time of day and the batteries that I put in are low and that I need to go to the store to pick up rechargeable batteries and a charger to go with it.

New camera equipment

I bought a video and picture camera a while back, including a stand for them both.  In addition, I'm receiving a GigaPan 100 in the mail tomorrow to help improve the picture taking process.

Interesting Panorama made by someone

He did an excellent job in organizing some good photosynths.

Titan Millar