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I hack about with graphics programming and like to play with new ideas, apps and stuff whether 2D or more usually 3D...
Time marches on and developers have been busy. There are some new photogrammetry apps out there and one looks particularly good. Released (recently) in Aug 2018 a project my the name of Meshroom has frozen a build for release for both Windows and Linux. If you head over to AliceVision website there are some links there to download the software as prebuilt binaries: https://alicevision.github.io/#meshroom Before you do however you should ...