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Application Notes

Application Notes for specific software features and application specific work cases

  • Troubleshooting Calibration Problems

    Calibration in Vic-3D is well automated but certain situations can lead to problems with either high calibration scores, or a failure to calibrate at all. This article lists some common causes for eac...

  • Camera Coordinate System in Vic-3D

    By default, Vic-3D uses the Best Plane Fit to assign a coordinate system.  This option calculates a transform into the best fit plane of the surface.   Sometimes it is preferred to leave the data in c...

  • DIC and Thermal Imaging

    This guide lays out the steps for combining 3D DIC data with temperature data from an IR camera. The basic parts of the procedure include: ● Camera Selection & Setup ● System & Test Setup ● VIC-Snap S...

  • VRO Calibration in Vic-3D

    Vic-3D 8 and later have a new calibration option using Variable Ray Origin (VRO) camera models to eliminate measurement bias when imaging through refractive surfaces. This is especially useful for set...

  • Triggering Methods

    An overview and setup guide of the triggering methods including Digital Pulse(or TTL Capture) and Hardware Triggering, used to obtain synchronized data during the acquisition process, available throug...

  • Multi-System Registration from Rigid Motions

    The principle behind using multi-view registration from rigid motions is to calibrate multiple systems separately, use rigid motions of a speckle pattern to determine the geometric transformations bet...

  • SEM Drift Correction

    The linked PDF details the procedure for correcting SEM drift and distortion in Vic-2D. The ZIP file contains a demo set of distortion correction data together with an image list....

  • Viewing Through a Window

    Particularly common with high heat applications, sometimes we must view through a window, glass, viewing pane. There are just a few things to keep in mind when doing this: 1. Keep the window as planar...

  • External Orientation Calibration

    There are several instances in which the use of the External Orientation Calibration can be helpful: 1. Large measurement fields for which a large enough grid is not practical. 2. The cameras have bee...

  • Computing Cylindrical Transformations

    Computing Cylindrical Transformations The cylindrical coordinates transformation in Vic-3D is used to orient the data in an appropriate orientation for looking at cylindrical data. This transformation...