Wonders of Life Pavilion - EPCOT Center | Spatial Mesh Extraction from Guest Video

Magic is wonderful but it doesn't always equate to beauty, but the act itself is beautiful. Magic is often the result of highly technical apparatuses at work that make the impossible happen. In an experiment to understand footage, camera paths, and affordances in camera shake, footage from a Disney guest at Epcot was used to extract spatial meshes from the recording. The process of photogrammetry is quite magical, it's a process that is heavily being democratized as new sensors and cloud computing for processing is becoming available to consumers through apps. This experiment was intended as a way to see results from content that is not close to the producer but using found artifacts in a process that traditional is site-specific. Considering the footage was never intended for mesh extraction, the frame rate and fidelity of the image led to many points being unrecognized in frames. To perhaps introduce the practice of dark magic, the use of AI | ML pipelines to sharpen the images would have perhaps yielded more clear (non-blurry) frames that would be appropriate from the process. The result is quite rough but the new form resulting from the process is in some way generative to the imagination. I have yet to use footage that is intended to test the fidelity and yield but with a conscious camera, it should be promising.