3D upload and automatic processing

Between the scanner and a model you can study lies a chain of technical work: format conversions, texture handling, optimization for the screen. In the Hub that chain runs by itself. Your part ends when the capture is delivered.

How a model reaches the Hub

• From the Scan app. Finished scan sessions are delivered directly by the AerariumChain Scan app; the Hub registers each delivery and begins work.
• From the browser. In 3D Assets, the upload dialog accepts files by drag and drop: useful for models produced elsewhere or received on loan of data.

Accepted model formats: OBJ, PLY, STL, GLB, OFF, with MTL materials and JPG, PNG, BMP textures. Transfers go to protected cloud storage; large models travel in parallel parts, so even heavy scans arrive briskly.

What the Hub does on its own

As soon as a delivery is registered, the worker network takes over:

• Conversion of any accepted format into the form the viewer streams best, and back into working formats when needed.
• Textures preserved, compressed, and re-prepared where necessary, so the color captured on the easel survives intact.
• Levels of detail. Several graded versions of each model are prepared, with textures scaled to match, so the viewer can serve a phone in the gallery and a workstation in the study room with equal grace.
• Plates and previews. Turntable views, in full color and in neutral relief, illustrate each model in the listing.
• Scan processing. Raw scanner sessions are resolved into finished meshes on workers equipped with the Artec software.

Following the work

Each item in 3D Assets shows its versions and the steps behind them, each marked completed, failed or cancelled. When the last step closes, View 3D opens the viewer.

Preservation derivatives produced by DPAC (Ecomic) appear here as well. While a DPAC package that cites a derivative is being deposited, or once it has been notarized, that derivative is locked against deletion: the preservation record stays whole.

Bound to the Catalog

Every delivery is tied to the record of the work it digitizes. From the Catalog you reach the models of a work; from a model you always know which work it belongs to, and under whose custody it stands.