Hi there! Please bear with my boasting for a while. :-) I just wrote a blog post [1] on my experience with snapping photogrammetry software, that is software which can build a 3D model out of a set of 2D photographs.
I also made a video overview of the process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELHOjC_V-FE What might be of interest to the readers of this mailing list, is that there is a multitude of software tools out there which are not packaged for Linux, mostly because their authors are more interested in programming than in software distribution. That is certainly the case for scientific software, where authors are researchers who excel in their field but who often happen not to be interested in software distribution (presumably because they target other university researchers, who are anyway supposed to hack on the sources). Sometimes they are also not even very good programmers, which can make building their software harder than what it could be. Snapcraft and snaps can be of enormous help in this case. I enjoyed writing those snaps, and despite being initially totally indifferent about these projects, I've ended up contributing to them with pleasure. The bottom line is: if you have time, and are looking for some cool software to snap, have a look for scientific and academic projects. Chances are that they are not packaged for Linux, and that their popularity can benefit a lot from being snapped. At the same time, you'll be making snap more popular, which is always a win. :-) Ciao, Alberto [1]: http://blog.mardy.it/2017/03/making-snap-packages-of-photogrammetry.html -- Snapcraft mailing list Snapcraft@lists.snapcraft.io Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/snapcraft
