Comments on: Back to 1999 – Still Love Canoma

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 07 May 2010 21:33:05 +0000

Holy crap!! I was just telling a co-worker just how ahead-of-the-game Canoma was and that I needed to find my copy of it on CD buried in my house somewhere... Awesome stuff.

MetaCreation was where it was at!!

By: Thera

Thera — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 21:39:28 +0000

One more on the “I miss Canoma” [and Metacreations] train 🙁

By: bruno.postle

bruno.postle — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 18:13:13 +0000

I miss Canoma too, it is a real shame it was abandoned.

I’ve used Hugin and CAD with this technique for a long time: http://hugin.sourceforge.net/tutorials/surveying/

For somebody with good 3D CAD skills it is very accurate and fast, still it’s no use if you want a texture-mapped model.

By: Sorbus

Sorbus — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 17:48:28 +0000

I love Canoma too!

Have you tried Insight3D? I’ve just got the Wndows version to run under Wine on my Mac after googling for Canoma: http://insight3d.sourceforge.net/

The one thing I used to get frustrated with Canoma was that even when you ‘glue’ points together, they never truly line up having imported the model into another application. Lots of follow on work is needed to make coplanar surfaces line up.

SketchUp’s PhotoMatch isn’t bad at all, and if they included better use of the Google Building Maker, I’d feel as if there wasn’t such a void left by Canoma…