The Crossroad of Death (in French: Le Carrefour des Morts) is one of the most impressive places out of the 200 miles of galleries, rooms and chambers. It’s made of two curved tunnel travels completely around, forming a rotunda with passages radiating from it in a wheel-spoke fashion (a larger Polycam capture is here).
The area is full of bones and some other galeries are still around, sealed forever. Thousands of bodies from where moved here from different origins: anonymous graves of the Montparnasse cemetery (above), bodies found during road work in Paris, and a cholera epidemic.
An estimated 6 million dead bodies lie in the catacombs of Paris.
Scanned with the iPhone12 Pro and Scaniverse. Please feel free to follow my collections of daily scans (link) as well as my scans in San Francisco, Paris, or in the catacombs: link
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@hasnain.s.vohra Thanks, I wish I could take more of it. I need to come back with @alban and we do a scanning raid :)
Emmanuel, your scans are so good!
@laurenssmets 600 meters seems a lot. I think Clarion Alley and Lombard Street (on my Sketchfab account) were like 300 meters-ish. What you can do is to give it a try first in some street outside. Alternatively, proceed by scanning portions and then assemble in some 3D software (like Blender, Metashape, and more). It's not an issue with the size of the files itself, the iPhone has enough memory. It's more about what's the largest scan the app can handle.
@edemaistre sorry for asking all tgese questions but I want to makeca good chouce before i buy one. Fo you think i can scan 600m tunnel(dimensions like a catacombe) in 1 go. So in captures and assembling them afterwards or will the iphone crash as some other experiences tell me. Is it a sollution to empty the iphone with an ssd cart??
@laurenssmets just the iPhone app. Nothing less, nothing more. Try Scaniverse or Polycam
What app or program do you use to assemble captures together??
@laurenssmets this took about 5-10 minutes of scanning. The only small device you can use in an iPhone 12 Pro or iPad Pro (with M1 = better). You won’t be able to capture a single scan for more than 10-15 minutes . You’ll have to make several captures and then assemble them together
@edemaistre . Looks really great!!! how many hours do you need to scan this ring. I am thinking about using this in caves.
view: sketchfab.com/laurenssmets
or any other advice for a small Lidar device??
@freedexplore >> here skfb.ly/o66NL with @polycam
Unfortunately there was some issue with the processing (the contrast/colors didn’t do well)
Dommage il manque l'intérieur, s'aurait été hyper intéressant à voir en 3D ^^