Resources for Canoma users

ExportToCanoma 1.0	3/22/2004
A new utility from expert user BobMax: have you ever wanted to take an existing 3D model and load it into Canoma so you can apply realistic textures from a photograph ? That is exactly what ExportToCanoma does. Best of all ? BobMax is providing this to you free ! See more about ExportToCanoma
Canoma Forum	2/28/2002
A new message board for Canoma is up and running - check it out please. Future news and announcements will appear there rather than here. And of course, YOU can add content to that site. This site will stay around for existing media, tutorials and links.

Canoma still available (well, some copies at least)

1/23/2002

I keep getting inquiries about copies of Canoma, demo versions etc. More so recently, I don't know why. In any case, a Spanish reseller still has a bunch of Canoma copies for sale, at a very reduced price. These are English versions, for Mac and PC. Here is the text of an email from Ignasi Riera at 4bytes.com:

Cost is 269 $US dollars plus post&pack (post and pack from spain is expensive a lot of USA clients send us UPS to take the packet from our office).
This is the link to our English shop
VISA and Mastercard is well to pay but we accept wire fund transfer (in the same page at end of the order process). Orders can come from mail or fax to me: ignasi.riera@4bytes.com with name, address, mail, and payment type. Then I contact with the client and ask for Credit card data or other via mail. Our Fax is: +34 93 439 53 02

Adobe Elements

9/14/2001

Adobe has recently released Adobe Elements, "Son of Photoshop". A friend of ours has written the software for stitching together images which is now part of Elements. You can create very wide angle synthetic photographs with this technique which can then be fed to Canoma. This will result in faster and more accurate modeling than with seperate images. Click on the thumbnail below to see large scale versions of the images as well as a finished Canoma model of downtown Palo Alto, generated with several stitched images.

Archeology Lesson

9/14/2001

By chance I just noticed that there are still some Canoma pages up at a long forgotten Metacreations server (thank you Google). There you can find a

FAQ,
a pdf datasheet,
a section from the manual that is a Canoma tutorial (which was for use with the free downloadable demo which I cannot find on their site any more)
a case study of Canoma at work for a downtown Phoenix, AZ project

Also, some animated gifs that were used in advertising

and an early concept art for the Canoma box (can you guess the codename for Canoma?)

and a couple of screenshots from version 2 - which was work in progress when Metacreations shut down. Connoisseurs will see an important new capability demonstrated in these: Cylinders (there was a lot more of course, but these are two screenshots that survived).

Dutch Canoma modelers

8/4/2001

Just heard from a Dutch company - WebTags - that creates 3D models from Aerial Photography using Canoma. Their site is in Dutch, but just follow the picture links from their example page. They also have an interesting idea about combining panorama images and a 3D model (see their Haagse Poort model)