Mushroom

3D ModelNoAI

Quick scan of a small mushroom cluster growing on a tree stump. Spotted while hiking through dense woodlands around Oxford, right before sunset. Commonly known as turkey tail, I liked its rainbow-like colour patterns.

Source dataset of 140 x 12MP photos, acquired with a smartphone under suboptimal conditions: low light, shallow depth-of-field (f1.8), and slow shutter speed (1/20s), which caused occasional motion blur. Surprisingly, the reconstruction algorithm captured surface details quite nicely.

The cropped raw topology of 11M points was decimated selectively to 25k, retaining more detail in the mushroom caps (pilei). 4K PBR textures.

Given their thin structure, I also experimented with some translucency and subsurface scattering. The effect is more evident when viewing the mushrooms at a low angle. Check the 4th annotation for more details.

Selective decimation:

Sample image: