3DF Zephyr
| 3DF Zephyr | |
|---|---|
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| Developer(s) | 3DFLOW |
| Initial release | January 2014 |
| Stable release | 3.302
/ July 2017 |
| Operating system | Windows |
| Available in | English, Italian, Chinese and Japanese |
| Type | Photogrammetry |
| License | commercial |
| Website | www |
3DF Zephyr[1][2] is a commercial photogrammetry and 3D modeling software. Developed and marketed by the Italian software house 3DFLOW, 3DF Zephyr was first released in January 2014 and continuously updated since then. It's a complete photogrammetry pipeline software package that includes many post processing tools for post processing, measurements, 3D modeling and content creation. It allows 3D reconstruction from both photos or videos, by automatically extracting frames and selecting those most suitable for the computation.
Although the software is a Windows only application, it has been reported as fully working on Linux with the aid of Wine[3].
History
The technology behind 3DF Zephyr has been completely in-house built by 3DFLOW, rather than relying on computer vision third party libraries like most of its competitors. Initially released as 3DF Zephyr Pro, a consumer-targeted edition was released shortly, 3DF Zephyr Lite and then a GIS and mapping oriented edition as well, 3DF Zephyr Aerial. In 2017, 3DFLOW also released a free edition.
3DF Zephyr has been one of the first photogrammetry software tailored also for hobbysts and enthusiasts: it's the first photogrammetry software to be ever published on Steam[4] and one of the few fully featured photogrammetry software packages available for free[5].
All the 3DF Zephyr packages share the same proprietary reconstruction engine from 3DFLOW and bundle the automatic image masking software 3DF Masquerade.
3DF Zephyr Pro
The professional, standard edition of Zephyr has no processing limits and is targeted to professional 3D modelers. This version also features laser scanner support but lacks all the GIS and mapping tools that have been included in the Aerial version. It is mainly used for professional body scanning, archaeology, engineering and close range photogrammetry. This is the only version of Zephyr that features the shape from silhouette (commonly known as Voxel carving) approach in addition to the classic multi view stereo approach for dense point cloud generation.
3DF Zephyr Lite
This consumer-oriented version was released shortly after the 3DF Zephyr Pro debut, and was initially capped to 200 images. That limitation has been recently changed to 500 images (or video frames) and lacks all the advanced tools available in the Pro edition, such as orthophoto generation and laser scanning support.
3DF Zephyr Aerial
The most complete edition, features all the tools available in 3DF Zephyr Pro as well as many other tools suitable for architechture, GIS and mapping applications: it features basic CAD drawing functions (that can be done on the images and then automatically projected and extracted from the point cloud) as well as specific mapping functions such as contour line generation, multi view point cloud bundle adjusment (ICP).
3DF Zephyr Free
Similarly to 3DF Zephyr Lite, this edition is heavily capped in terms of features, with less tools than 3DF Zephyr Lite and with only a processing power up to 50 images. It is, however, capable of opening project files created with any version of zephyr (.ZEP files) making it a good choice to share/open projects on other computers.
See also
External links
References
- ^ "3Dflow Technology". www.3dflow.net. Retrieved 2017-08-31.
- ^ "3DF Zephyr Pro - 3d models from photos - 3Dflow". www.3dflow.net. Retrieved 2017-08-31.
- ^ "WineHQ - 3DF Zephyr". appdb.winehq.org. Retrieved 2017-08-31.
- ^ "3DF Zephyr Lite Steam Edition on Steam". store.steampowered.com. Retrieved 2017-08-31.
- ^ "3DF Zephyr Free - 3Dflow". www.3dflow.net. Retrieved 2017-08-31.