beebbenjamin / ansible.meshroom

Ansible deployment to provision a Linux virtual machine (VM) with a meshroom pipeline

Hi there my name is Richard Benjamin Allen, but online I generally go by Ben👋

I am a software engineer at the Bodleian Libraries at the University of Oxford, with over 10 years experience with programming and scientific research. Since 2018 I have also been the Executive Director and principal consultant for the first lean Oxford University Spinout Company PalaeoPi Ltd. Principal consultant meaning I am the one developing our core technology and providing consultancy to clients on behalf of the company.

ansible.meshroom's Issues

Implementation Plan

I think we should use ansible as the base for this project because this can be used to provision a service on a local machine or a remote server, hence the name ansible.meshroom. Let me know if you can think of a better name later!

I envision this as being something that can use an API to upload pictures to and run some automated processes using meshroom, then dump the project files to a mounted storage drive so that people can do some manual checking/rework in blender before the service continues onto texturing after detecting changes in the files. We can create separate repos to hold some of the other code for the service once we know what we're dealing with.

This way OpenScan and PalaeoPi can offer a cloud processing option with our products, and other users can also set up their own for their own projects.

At this stage, this is open to change, these are just my ideas.