Technical Scuba Diving
FINALLY! It seems apt that this is being published on "Groundhog Day" since it seems like I kept waking up in a loop and diving the same-ole Yukon trying to finish my same-ole model. The model isn't perfect and I faced many, many challenges when trying to build it, but I have what I consider [...]
Intro After Dive 8 in which I had Lauren literally lay down on the Yukon in order to get a point of reference for the photos for the model, I was ready to just give up when that didn't work. I'm not sure what happened with Dive 9 but I think it was so disappointing [...]
Background I held my first photogrammetry class between Friday, Jan 20th through Sunday, Jan 22nd. This the first time I held the workshop and the results were very good given the conditions we had for the dive day on Saturday, Jan 21st. After a day of lecture and building a model on land, we dove [...]
Intro The adventure continues! Here is a snapshot of the project status after Dive #7 and before this dive. Obviously, still missing a few areas on the starboard amidships to hull area. After the results from dive #7 (Cave Line & Cookies), I had one more possible way to align photos for the stern section. [...]
I have almost the entire photogrammetry model of the Yukon complete -- in fact, I had it almost complete after dive 5. However, I'm still facing the ongoing problem with the moving seaweed and not being able to align photos for the starboard side hull. Below is the "state of the project" after the "Seaweed [...]
Intro / Background This will be a relatively quick post since I did the dive on Dec 2nd and have since done Dive #7 but I wanted to provide a chronological update on my "battle" to build a photogrammetry model of the Yukon. After Dive #5 (The "Butterfly Effect"), I had most of the wreck [...]
Intro The "Butterfly Effect" is part of chaos theory in physics. The theory is that a small change in one state can result in large differences in a later state. The prototypical example is that a butterfly flapping its wings can result in a tornado. I ran into a "Butterfly Effect" between building the model [...]
Summary I conducted Dive #4 for my Yukon photogrammetry project on Sunday, 6 November. The model is now close to 5,000 photos. I spent all week working on the model build process. I went down a lot of rabbit holes and my computers were working overtime. I'm definitely pushing the limits for the current hardware [...]
I had another dive on the Yukon and had planned on finishing the front of the wreck, starting the bow and starboard side and try to get some of the starboard edge done. The starboard edge is probably one of the two hardest tasks for this model. The reason is that currents often flow up [...]
Background Last year, as part of my learning progress of building photogrammetry models, I decided to build a model of the guns (whose barrels are fake) and a model of the prop (which is also not the real prop) on the HMCS Yukon wreck in San Diego. They were well contained projects and helped me [...]
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