Brain Coral - Platygyra daedalea

3D Model

“Platygyra daedalea, sometimes known as the lesser valley coral, is a colonial species of stony coral in the family Merulinidae. It occurs on reefs in shallow water in the Indo-Pacific region. It is a common species and the International Union for Conservation of Nature has assessed its conservation status as being of “least concern”.” - Wikipedia

This brain coral was located on the southern side of the coral garden known as Siete Pecados off the coast of Coron, Philippines. The pictures (84) were obtained from a 4K HD video shot in wide mode using a GoPro Hero 3+; the video was corrected for barrel/fisheye distortion using GoPro Studios. The stills were removed using VideoLAN media player’s scene filter and then resized using Image Resizer.

The sparse/dense clouds were created using VisualSFM, and imported into Meshlab where the dense cloud was cleaned and a Poisson mesh was generated, followed by texture mapping.