Thanks for this mardy. A very interesting read (& video)! > On 24 Mar 2017, at 23:33, Alberto Mardegan <alberto.marde...@canonical.com> > wrote: > > 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
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