visiting the British Museum

on the 20th of August 2022 i visited the British Museum with some friends and decided to take some videos:

back home

after i returned from my Vacation, i extracted the frames from each video using FFmpeg using the following command

ffmpeg -i video.mp4 -vf yadif images/%05d.png

the -vf yadif flag should extract frames without interlacing.

and then

i imported the frames into meshroom and let it run on 200°C default settings overnight.

and finally

i imported all the 3D Models and textures into Blender, cleaned up the meshes, set up my scene hit the render button and voilà we’ve successfully stolen from the British Museum:

you can find all the assets here


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