One of the pruposes of making Beta stages of sowftare IS to evaluate intial decisions, listen to requirements and see if we need to amend. For that a local stitch mode to show the user that they have captured the object well. For that they didnt necassarily need full high definition processing of the data on site, but just a proof that they have well taken the photos so that when they are back, they process the full res mesh on proper connection. the requirement to do work on location is well understood as it has been demanded by professioanls who capture on remote sites where thereis no internet. So, its one's choice how and where to process the data - we started by doing it on the cloud as that has many advantages (even if not fully visible with the Beta) and it allows us to offer strong tools with very flexible business models instead of old fashioned perpetual licenses. Additionally, there are some upcoming technology improvements that will make this really fast. We made improvements in the past 4-5 days and the wait times have bee be improved with every day. as we are not in full production, we havent had dedicated enough servers for processing when we launched the Beta and we got such a high volume of jobs that we frankly didnt expect, that it brought us to a crunch with users waiting in a queue. With cloud processing, you will be able to do it from any standard spec machine, close it after the photos/scans are uploaded ( the speed of that only depends on the strength of the internet) and do other work or go home. This is where the promise of the cloud processing is:īe able to use the thousands of Amazon servers to crunch the heavy duty data processing, while not forcing you to wait, keep the machine open while its processing the data, nor forcing you to own a really expensive machine. and you will be probably bearly be able to work at that time with other applications on your machine. Then, you will need to wait for many many hours or if you are lucky, for days (depending on number of scans photos) in which time you will not be able to close your machine, bring it home or else. If the photo to mesh and scan to mesh worked in offline mode, not reaching to the cloud but fully on the machine, given that it is a heavy computation task, to start with, you will need to have a very high spec expensive machine to run that.
So let me try to explain the thinking behind what we do.
There is a reason why we chose this type of processing, and you may agree with it or not. That is one of the main reasons to have this publically opened Beta ( meaning : work in progress sowftare"īut i am not sure i am a big fan of the word 'ridiculous', There are people behind this software who work very hard to make it happen.
Its OK to be demanding, and we love being pushed to do better and more.
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