Tokyo Interactions: in transit

My Sapporo jaunt makes traveling around Japan by shinkansen impractical (never thought I’d say that!), so I’m doing some of my bigger journeys via domestic flights instead. I’m not entirely happy with this, but …photos!

Always interesting to get a new viewpoint on cities:

Tokyo Interactions, transit

Tokyo Interactions, transit

Once we got above the cloud line I continued to snap away as the clouds were on very good form:

Tokyo Interactions, transit

Remembering the stepping stones I reproduced for the By Duddon’s Side project in the Spring, I wondered if it might be possible to do photogrammetry from a series of photos of the same clouds. Only one way to find out…

Tokyo Interactions, transit

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Here is the result after fumbling my way through software installation and guessing the workflow:
[noodle around with dragging/clicking in the window to move the model]

I think a 3D model was always going to be limited because of not circling around to get the cloud from all angles (can’t decide if that would be fun to do or not…). I also took many more photos of these clouds shown below, but for some reason got a really flat array of points from my first attempt at rendering them.

Tokyo Interactions, transit

The 3D model above was generated from a much smaller set of photos – I was interrupted by a member of the cabin crew asking me if I wanted something to drink!

Approaching Tokyo we flew over a few islands and promontories, where I found it fascinating to see how the clouds gathered above the land masses.

Tokyo Interactions, transit

Tokyo Interactions, transit

Tokyo Interactions, transit

Tokyo Interactions, transit

Tokyo Interactions, transit

Flickr album here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/nikki_pugh/albums/72157688432373285