Revealed the face of St. Anthony in 3D

The final image of St. Anthony, see below how to observe the 3D file in realtime

Dear friends who follow this site,

After days devoting myself to show the face of St. Anthony I decided to create a little different post.

 

TV story on Rome Reports (in English)

TV story on Buogiorno Regione Veneto (in Italian)

 TV story on Fantastico (in Portuguese), one ot the most important TV shows on Brazil (Globo TV). Link: http://g1.globo.com/fantastico/noticia/2014/06/designer-brasileiro-reconstroi-face-sem-saber-que-era-de-santo-antonio.html

  See the bust of Saint Anthony in realtime 3D. Use the mouse wheel (+- zoom) and the left mouse button to orbit. Link: https://skfb.ly/AssG

Initially I transcribe the presentation I made in Italy about the process of reconstruction and Print bust "del Santo" (The Saint), then I will share some links and videos stories presented on websites and TVs from Brazil, Italy and other countries (some examples above).

Centro Culturale Altinate | San Gaetano (auditorium) - Photo: Il Mattino di Padova

The presentation was made in Italian, in Padua, June 10 20:45 h at the Centro Culturale Altinate | San Gaetano (auditorium). The images represent the slides and text, obviously my words.

 The Presentation

Thanks to Dr. Paulo Miamoto for the translation to English and Luca Bezzi and Emma Varotto for the translation to Italian.
 
Ladies and gentlemen,

First of all, thank you for the attendance of this event. I'm very excited because it is the first time I participate in a presentation outside my country. I apologize for my Italian, which is not very good, not as good as that of my great-grandparents left here, more precisely Cremona, and went to southern Brazil in the late nineteenth century. I hope to honor them today.

I will briefly explain the process of the facial reconstruction, also referred to as approximation, of St. Anthony of Padua, this such notorious person, not only to the Catholic Church, but to History.

My job in this project was to digitally reconstruct the face of the Saint. Without knowing the identity of the individual, I received the skull to be rebuilt scanned in 3D, with the information that it was a male of European ancestry, aged 30-40 years. With these data initially started work cleaning and aligning the point clouds skull in Italian program MeshLab. 

 

Then I converted this cloud of points in a three-dimensional mesh putting it on a scale compatible with 3D printing.

Then I imported the skull in Blender software, in which I positioned it at the Frankfurt plane, an approximate position of a living person's head when standing.

Then, using research data for soft tissue depth, collected ​​in living European men aged 29-39 years and average BMI, digital pegs were positioned on the surface of the 3D skull model, according De Greef and collaborator's study. (2006.)

Using the reference of depth markers and projections from the skull I drew an outline of the individual's face in profile.

For a more consistent anatomical basis, the larger muscles were adapted from a template created in partnership with the OFLAB at USP, the Laboratory of Forensic Anthropology and Odontology, University of São Paulo.

This template is a file of a facial reconstruction that was made from from scratch, which later started to be used it as a base for this type of job. Through its deformation, it is possible to adapt it to any individual's 3D skull, regardless of sex or age.

So, using this template, the skin was deformed until it fit the references of depth markers and projections extracted directly from the skull.

During this process I counted with the aid of Dr. Paulo Eduardo Miamoto Dias, PhD in Forensic Dentistry.

Image with hight resolution available at Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sant%27Antonio_-_Saint_Anthony_-_v._2.0.jpg

As soon as the skin was adapted, Blender's sculpt mode was used to furrow its surface and evidentiate expression lines. I changed the settings of the template for the hair and beard and adjusted them to individual's anthropological profile. Then I sent images of it to the staff of Arc-Team and the Museum of Anthropology, University of Padua images reconstruction in two versions: with and without hair and beard.

Once the material was received and analyzed, the Italians disclosed the information about the identity of the individual. It was St. Anthony of Padua. I confess that it took me a while to realize who they were talking about. Obviously I was quite perplexed and greatly honored to know I was working on the reconstruction of such an important and notorious face. St. Anthony is the patron of the city that I live in Brazil (Sinop-MT). The hospital I was born in another city (Chapecó-SC) in southern Brazil is named after him. The name of my grandfather is Antonio Pagliari because of the saint and, even the name of the creator of the software used to reconstruct it, Blender 3D, is Antonius Roosendaal, in honor of the saint. Just to mention some examples.

Together with the identity of the famous individual, additional information was also disclosed, regarding his clothes and other relevant health data, as gathered by the Center for Studies Antonianos.

It was told that the saint would have had a stout appearance, due to a hydropsy condition near his death. As I did not have a survey depth of tissue taken in individuals with the same condition, I used data from the De Greef table, but for people with high BMI, in order to simulate this corpulence.

After these adjustments the facial structure, the clothing was modeled, the texture of the skin was set using as reference photographs taken from a 28 year-old man of European ancestry, and finally the hair, eyebrows and beard were set.

Official image of reconstruction avaiable at Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Anthony_-_facial_reconstruction_-_for_mobile_and_newspaper.jpg

Here we can see the final image, approved by the Centro Studi Antoniani.

The 3D model was sent to the Information Technology Center Renato Archer (CTI Campinas), an institution linked to the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation in Brazil. 

A few adjustments so that the mesh could be printed in 3D were necessary. These adjustments consisted in putting thickness to the bust, adjusting the hair texture and then applying a slightly rugged surface to simulate the volume of the facial hair.

3D model consisted of printing more than 1500 layers one over the other, until the bust was completed. Each layer has the thickness of a paper sheet.

Then it was removed from the powder repository with the aid of a vacuum cleaner. The piece went into an oven where it was heated to 65 ° for a few minutes. Then it was taken for the application of resin to another container. After a few hours drying the piece was finished and ready for transport.

Avail here to thank Dr. Jorge Vicente Lopes da Silva and developers Paulo Amorim and Thiago Franco de Moraes, all them from CTI's Division for 3D Technologies, which enabled us to do this 3D impression through a research partnership that we have for over a year.

The first tests of color printing that were made had some color problems, getting a darker part of the left side of the face.

To resolve this problem of color, we decided to get in touch with a photographer in my city, the painter Mari Bueno.

Mari accepted the challenge to retouch the piece, with complete freedom of style. The result was a more homogeneous surface with colors and a nice shine in the eyes of The Saint. With this step, we completed work on the presentation of the face.

Thanks everyone for coming to the museum and also for the invitation to come here and explain about the processes involving the facial reconstruction of this important man for the church and for the millions of people who worship him. This reconstruction of the face of a holy man, performed ​​with scientific methods, harmonically placed Science itself and religion side by side. Everything we did was based on appreciation for History, observation of technical protocols and respect for the church. Fortunately we were successful and here we have the result of months of work materialized in a bust, bearing not only technology, but also of faith passed down from generation to generation, over almost eight hundred years, since the life of St. Anthony left his body and entered ​​history.

Thank you very much!

On the Media

See below some links to videos and texts on the facial reconstruction of St. Anthony published on websites of various languages​​.

[Video - in Portuguese] Boletim | Aparecida é Notícia – O rosto de Santo Antônio é recriado com alta tecnologia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqIdRStivAQ

[Video - in Portuguese] Século News 13/06/2014 – Aparência Santo Antonio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gj1PDN6sBvM

[Video - in Portuguese] Rede Globo | Fantástico – Designer brasileiro reconstrói face de Santo Antônio : http://g1.globo.com/fantastico/noticia/2014/06/designer-brasileiro-reconstroi-face-sem-saber-que-era-de-santo-antonio.html

Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação (in Portuguese): “Novo” rosto de Santo Antônio é visto por brasileiros e italianos: http://www.mct.gov.br/index.php/content/view/355066/Novo_rosto_de_Santo_Antonio_e_visto_por_brasileiros_e_italianos.html

O Mensageiro de Santo Antônio – “Novo rosto” de Santo Antônio é apresentado em Pádua (in Portuguese): http://omensageiro.org.br/novo-rosto-de-santo-antonio-e-apresentado-em-padua/

Rede Século 21 – Reconstrução da face de Santo Antônio será entregue na Itália (in Portuguese): https://www.rs21.com.br/?p=104435

Estadão – Especialistas italianos e brasileiros reconstruem rosto de Santo Antônio (in Portuguese): http://ciencia.estadao.com.br/noticias/geral,especialistas-italianos-e-brasileiros-reconstroem-rosto-de-santo-antonio,1510193

Correio Popular – Centro cria imagem de Santo Antônio com base na ossada (in Portuguese): http://correio.rac.com.br/_conteudo/2014/06/capa/campinas_e_rmc/183009-centro-cria-imagem-de-santo-antonio-com-base-na-ossada.html

Msn Notícias – Designer brasileiro reconstrói verdadeiro rosto de Santo Antônio (in Portuguese): http://noticias.br.msn.com/brasil/story.aspx?cp-documentid=263925590

EFE - Designer brasileiro reconstrói verdadeiro rosto de Santo Antônio (in Portuguese): http://www.efe.com/efe/noticias/brasil/tecnologia/designer-brasileiro-reconstroi-verdadeiro-rosto-santo-antonio/3/2018/2342314

Só Notícia Boa – Igreja divulga rosto verdadeiro de Santo Antonio: 3D (in Portuguese and LIBRAS): http://sonoticiaboa.band.uol.com.br/noticia.php?i=4971

A12 Notícias – Rosto de Santo Antônio é reconstituído na Itália (in Portuguese): http://www.a12.com/noticias/detalhes/rosto-de-santo-antonio-e-reconstruido-na-italia

Terra Notícias – Designer brasileiro reconstrói verdadeiro rosto de Santo Antônio (in Portuguese): http://noticias.terra.com.br/ciencia/designer-brasileiro-reconstroi-verdadeiro-rosto-de-santo-antonio,b740d3b707e86410VgnCLD200000b2bf46d0RCRD.html

[Video - in English] Rome Reports – What did St. Anthony of Padua look like? 3D Technology gives us a glimpse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaR88gApdVI

CNA Catholic News Agency (in English)- Forensic experts attempt to reconstruct face of St. Anthony: http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/forensic-experts-attempt-to-reconstruct-face-of-st-anthony-35312/
 

[Video - in Italian] NewsTV200 –  Svelato il volto di Sant’Antonio di Padova grazie allo studio di alcuni ricercatori: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqCZJMfMwIE

[Video - in Italian] Antenatre – Dopo Otto Secoli il Volto di S. Antonio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecEKlEoyb1I

[Video - in Italian] Tg3 RAI – Qual era il volto di Sant’Antonio?: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT-aLfCQVlY

[Video - in Italian] TgPadova Telenuovo – Ecco il volto del Santo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irF-zCt0Oy8

[Video - in Italian] Tg1 RAI - Sant’Antonio in 3D : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4ohn8Mb19M

[Video - in Italian] Reteveneta – Giugno: Il Volto del Santo Emoziona i Fedeli: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgMw3WDIGEk

[Video - in Italian] Antenatre – In preghiera davanti al volto di Antonio: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wvz5f_HXkZ4

Il Mattino de Pádua (in Italian) – Svelato il volto del Santo: ecco Antonio in 3D: http://mattinopadova.gelocal.it/cronaca/2014/06/10/news/svelato-il-volto-del-santo-ecco-antonio-in-3d-1.9399136

Corriere del Veneto Il volto di Sant’Antonio (in Italian): http://corrieredelveneto.corriere.it/veneto/notizie/cultura_e_tempolibero/2014/11-giugno-2014/volto-sant-antonio-223374344573.shtml

Il Mattino (photo gallery): http://mattinopadova.gelocal.it/foto-e-video/2014/06/11/fotogalleria/svelato-il-volto-del-santo-ecco-antonio-in-3d-1.9402960

Santantonnio.org (Mesaggero di Santo Antonio – Basilica del Santo) Il Volto di Antonio (in Italian with press kit): http://www.santantonio.org/portale/pagina.asp?id=137

Trentino Corriere Alpi – Il volto di S.Antonio ricostruito a Cles (in Italian): http://trentinocorrierealpi.gelocal.it/cronaca/2014/06/12/news/il-volto-di-s-antonio-ricostruito-a-cles-1.9404829

PadovaOggi – Sant’Antonio da Padova, svelato il volto del frate ricostruito in 3D (in Italian): http://www.padovaoggi.it/cronaca/sant-antonio-padova-volto-ricostruito-3d.html

La Difesa del Popolo – Ecco il vero volto di sant’Antonio (in Italian): http://www.difesapopolo.it/Rubriche/Gli-speciali/I-giorni-del-Santo/Ecco-il-vero-volto-di-sant-Antonio

Padovando Magazine – Il volto del Santo (in Italian): http://www.padovando.com/mostre/il-volto-del-santo/

Ricostruito dalla scienza il volto di sant’Antonio (in Italian) – http://www.lavitadelpopolo.it/Chiesa/Ricostruito-dalla-scienza-il-volto-di-sant-Antonio

Provincia Italiana di S. Antonio di Padova – il volto di sant’Antonio di Padova – nuova ricostruzione scientifica (in Italian): http://www.francescaninorditalia.net/eventi/233-il-volto-di-sant-antonio-di-padova-nuova-ricostruzione-scientifica
 

il BO, il giornale dell’Università degli studi di Padova – Sant’Antonio senza trucco (in Italian): http://www.unipd.it/ilbo/content/santantonio-senza-trucco-svelato-il-suo-vero-volto

lffl linux freedom – Linux viene utilizzato per ricostruire il volto in 3D di Sant’Antonio (in Italian): http://www.lffl.org/2014/06/sant-antonio-volto-3d-software-open-linux.html

[Video - in Spanish] GloriaTV – Reconstruido el rostro de Santo Antonio: http://gloria.tv/?media=623640

Televisa – Reconstruyen el verdadero rostro de San Antonio (in Spanish): http://noticieros.televisa.com/mundo/1406/reconstruyen-verdadero-rostro-san-antonio/

Telesur – Revelan verdadero rostro de San Antonio  (in Spanish): http://www.telesurtv.net/articulos/2014/06/11/revelan-verdadero-rostro-de-san-antonio-8301.html

Aleteia – Science : le vrai visage de saint Antoine de Padoue reconstitué en 3D (in French): http://www.aleteia.org/fr/science/article/science-le-vrai-visage-de-saint-antoine-de-padoue-reconstitue-en-3d-5315691322277888

Radio Notre Dame - 13 juin : le vrai visage de Saint Antoine de Padoue (in French): http://radionotredame.net/2014/vie-de-leglise/13-juin-le-vrai-visage-de-saint-antoine-de-padoue-en-3d-27471/

Fait Religieux - Le visage de Saint-Antoine de Padoue reconstitué...en 3D ! (in French): http://www.fait-religieux.com/la-photo-du-jour-1/2014/06/13/le-visage-de-saint-antoine-de-padoue-reconstitue...en-3d-

Gesicht des Heiligen Antonius von Padua rekonstruiert (in Germany): http://www.katholisches.info/2014/06/04/gesicht-des-heiligen-antonius-von-padua-rekonstruiert/

Bibliography

L. Bezzi (Arc-Team), C. Moraes (Arc-Team), N. Carrara (Museo Antropologico dell'Università di Padova), Il volto del Santo. La ricostruzione Facciale Forense di Sant'Antonio di Padova (document in Academia; document in ResearchGate)

Digital bones. New technologies for anthropological disciplines

Hi all,

we are organizing an open lesson in Padua on 5 June. The title is "Digital bones. Nuove tecnologie al servizio delle discipline archeologiche" ("Digital bones. New technologies for anthropological disciplines") and the topic will be the application of Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) to Tanatology in archeology and forensic sciences.

The lesson will be held at 10.00 in the Aula Emiciclo of the Orto Botanico, which is the world's oldest academic botanical garden that is still in its original location, as it was founded in 1545 by the Venetian Republic (so it can be also an occasion to visit to this monument).

The Aula Emiciclo (image in Public Domain form PHAIDRA system)

The speakers will be:

Nicola Carrara (Museum of Anthropology of Padua University), with a general introduction to tanatology

Luca Bezzi (Arc-Team), with a lesson/demonstration of 2D documentation through GIS of funerary contexts

Alessandro Bezzi (Arc-Team), with a lesson/demonstration of 3D documentation through SfM/IBM of funerary contexts

Cicero Moraes (Arc-Team), with a lesson/demonstration of digital forensic facial reconstruction

The attendance is free and during the lesson will be also given a preview of ArcheOS 5 (Theodoric), especially regarding its use for archeoanthropological aspects.

ArcheOS for anthopologists!

For more details and informations, here below is the poster of the lesson.

The poster regarding the lesson

You can also visit the FB event page (connected with the exhibition "FACCE. Imolti volti della storia umana"), where, if interested, you can register for the lesson.

Have a nice day!

Il Volto del Santo (the Face of the Saint)

As part of the celebrations of the "mese antoniano" (the month that the city of Padua dedicates to S. Anthony), on 10 June will be held an evening focused on the historical figure of Fernando Martins de Bulhões (S. Anthony). 

The event will take place in Padua at the auditorium of the Cultural Center Altinate / S. Gaetano and will point the attention to the presentation of the forensic facial reconstruction of the Saint.  
The conference will begin at 20:45.

The "Giugno Antoniano 2014" logo

The invited speakers are:

 +Luca Bezzi, archaeologist at Arc- Team Ltd., was involved in the three-dimensional documentation of the mortal remains of the Saint (the starting point for the facial reconstruction).

 +Cícero Moraes , digital artist at Arc- Team Ltd., has performed the forensic reconstruction, using the most modern protocols.

Father Luciano Bertazzo, director of the Centro Studi Antoniani, one of the leading experts in the figure of the Saint. 

Nicola Carrara, curator of the Museum of Anthropology at the University of Padua and creator of the exhibition "Faces. The many aspects of human history", the event that led to the forensic facial reconstruction of St. Anthony.

During the evening will be shown the 3D documentation techniques applied to skeletal remains, the forensic reconstruction protocols, the relationship between the classical iconography and physiognomy returned by modern technologies and, finally , will be given a preview of the exhibition "Faces. The many aspects of human history, " which will take place in October 2014 (visit the FaceBoook page!).

 

The poster of the event

Here is possible to download the leaflet of the "Giungno Antoniano 2014". The entrance is free, we wait you there!

2016-04-28 Updated

For who is interested, we wrote an article (in Italian) about the Forensic Facial reconstruction of St. Anthony:

"Il volto del Santo. La ricostruzione facciale forense di S. Antonio da Padova" (here in ResearchGate and here in Academia)

MicMac and PPT: two FLOSS solutions for 3D data

Hi all,
last week I finished my lectures in the Master Open Techne about Free Software and 3D data (acquisition and processing). As last year I could spend many times to research new solutions and test some applications. Some months ago, thanks to the friend +Romain Janvier , I was introduce to the use of MicMac, a suite for three-dimensional documentation of reality developed by the Institut national de l’information géographique et forestière (IGN). As Python Photogrammetry Toolbox, MicMac can produce point cloud from set of photos. There are two different ways to acquire images:

- the ground geometry mode (useful for zenithal pictures as a drone data-set or for wall's prospect) = take pictures perpendicularly to the surface (ground or wall) with 60 % of overlapping (between images and lines of image)

- the image geometry mode (useful for any kind of object that has more than one surface) = take a "cross" of images starting from the central one and then up, down, left and right; then take other images moving to the second position (frontal to another surface) and again a "cross" of image; go on in this way for all the surfaces of the object that you need to reconstruct.

The data acquisition is a little bit more complicate than PPT, both in the way to shoot and in the camera settings (keep the same level of zoom, no auto-focus, no stabilization, no flash, ...), but the final point cloud is denser. PPT is more user-friendly (thank to the python scripts and the GUI) but slower in processing data (mostly in the Camera Pose Estimation step of Bundler).

One of the advantages of MicMac is the fast developing that is improving the software and simplifying its usage. I'm waiting for the GUI ;)
Unfortunately Bundler and CMVS/PMVS have not new release since years.

Arc-Team: Professionals at Work - the "Frozen Stories" videoclip

Since several years, the Department of Archaeology of the Autonomous Province of South-Tyrol has been documenting and rescuing various archaeological remains in high alpine environment. The project area for late summer 2013 was the Langgrubenjoch a passage between the Schnalser- and the Matscher-Valley.

The site is located on an altitude of about 3100m.a.s.l. (10170ft) and offers a striking variety of wooden finds from prehistory to antiquity.

The project was directed by Dr. Hubert Steiner, member of the Department of Archaeology of the Autonomous Province of South-Tyrol, who is also one of the curators of the exibition "FROZEN STORIES - Discoveries in the Alpine glaciers" at the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology (Bozen) from 25 February 2014 to 22 February 2015.

+Luca Bezzi announced it on ATOR first in february 2014 in the post "High mountain archaeology: Frozen Stories".

The South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology is home of the "Iceman Ötzi"  one of the biggest archaeological sensations in the 20th century. The site of Langgrubenjoch is situated just a few kilometers from his finding place.

Frozen Stories provides for the first time some of the findings from Langgrubenjoch toegether with a video clip, filmed during the survey by ourselves, which shows the whole archaeological working process in such extreme circumstances.

The publication on ATOR was possible by courtesy of the directorship of the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology, represented by Andreas Putzer. Thanks also to Hubert Schönegger and the Team of Geosfilm, for converting the video and splitting the soundtrack.

WebRTIViewer

Hi all,

I write this post to complete the one +Rupert Gietl did regarding Large Scale Reflectance Transformation Imaging. As you read in that article, Rupert, using +GRASS GIS, re-built virtually the necessary light conditions to process an RTI image of an entire archaeological area. 

This is just one of the test we are carrying on with RTI techniques, since we are trying to evaluate this methodology under different aspects. Obviously, during our experiments, we encounter interesting researches carried on by other institutions. 

This post regards one of the projects we found on our way (I will write soon about other related works) and, more precisely, a software to share RTI images through internet: WebRTIViewer. Actually the source code of the application, an HTML5-WebGL viewer, is release under the therms of the General Public License 3 (GPL 3) on the website of its author: +Gianpaolo Palma.

Here is an example of its application, using Rupert's data of the archaeological site (better visualized here). To see it, just turno on the light and, holding the left button, move your mouse around.

The software comes with two binary tools (one for Windows 32 bit and the other for Windows 64 bit), which are necessary to prepare the RTI images for the viewer. For this reason I wrote to Giampolo Palma to ask if there would be the possibility to insert WebRTIViewer and the other applications in ArcheOS (to do this we would need the access to the source code of the binary tools, called webGLRTIMaker) and he kindly answered that he likes the idea and he would agree, but before to release the code of the webGLRTIMaker under an open license he will ask the opinion of his labs colleagues (the Visual Computing Lab). This institute, part of the Italian CNR-ISTI, is the same that develops other nice Free/Libre and Open Source (FLOSS) software, usefull in archaeology, such as MeshLab, which is often in our post, or 3DHOP (soon a post about it). Hopefully, if everything goes well, we will have another nice tool to add to the ArcheOS software selection, helping Cultural Heritage professionals in sharing data through RTI technologies.

Here below you can see again webRTIViewer in action (better visualized here), this time with data coming from the archaeological excavation of Khovle Gora (in Georgia), where we work for the University of Innsbruck (Austria) and support technically the fieldwork directed by Dr. Walter Kuntner of the Institut für Alte Geschichte und Altorientalistik.

Filming with a smartphone fixed in a kite

One of the goals that made me start writing ATOR's blog was the possibility of having access to interesting technologies without the need to purchase expensive software licenses, or even inaccessible hardware.

A very interesting example is the use of photographs to scan 3D objects. In this case, we replace (with limitations, of course) a laser scanners by a photographic camera and a program that calculates the 3D mesh using an algorithm that crosses data from photographs.

So far so good, but what about when we talk about drones? Is there a way to create a tool like a drone with what we have at hand and without spending much money?

Loosely speaking, fortunately the answer is yes!

To run the project we took a long holiday we had here in Brazil and I called my nephew who is a master kite builder. Thank very much for your help Patrick Pagliari!

Our challenge was to build a kite that could fly with a smartphone attached using only what we had in our homes.

As this was a great kite, the first challenge we had was finding rods with sufficient scale to meet our needs.
I live on a farm and we have lots of trees on the ground. Some time ago we had time heavy rains in my region with strong winds. These winds broke some branches of a mulberry tree (Morus nigra) that we have on this farm. Since they are lightweight and almost dried branches we decided to use them in the project.

We worked until night to cut the trunks, tie them and compose a kite with 7.5x the size of a normal kite.

The other day, with the small tail of the kite made​​, we made ​​the first flight test ... successful!

Then we reinforce a layer of silk paper and we pinned a smartphone in the kite (Samsung Galaxy Y Duos).

To solve the problem of the video, which was recorded with excessive movement of the kite, I edited it manually rotation in Blender.
After I imported in the Kdenlive and I enabled automatic stabilization to improve the result.

Now, for the second version of the project we intend to create a script that accesses the camera and take pictures with 3.1 megapixels, so we can do photogrammetry for large spaces.

I hope it works.

A big hug!