Sunburst Squash (Pattypan Squash)

3D Model

Finally getting back into some small object photogrammetry. This one was one of the most complex shapes I’ve done so far, outside of room scans.

First off, here’s a shot of the source object, if you’d like to compare the result:

To capture all the little bumps, nooks and crannies I opted to do 8 rows of 72 shots (5° increments) for a total of 576 images @ 28MP. Processing took somewhere around 5 days, so I’m glad I have a dedicated computer to render on.

Here’s what all those rows look like assembled.

And here’s what an individual shot looks like. I haven’t figured out how to do polarization yet but my ring light works pretty well for flattening things out.