You're right that I'd definitely be doing more good if I wasn't being an dick about it, sorry. Though probably I shouldn't have engaged anyway. However, I am still drinking so despite my better judgement let's get into it on the facts of the matter at hand. (dang please forgive me for degrading the quality of HN)
> mostly just pointing out that I had different expectations from a "step-by-step guide"
Let's not pretend you were doing your best to communicate this in good faith with your original comment, but I shouldn't have been insulting, again, sorry.
However you absolutely touched a nerve because as someone who's made it a point the last few years to try to switch to using only OSS Meshroom really does a comparatively bangup job of usability.
> Yes, but the step-by-step guide has eight steps.
Sure the guide could be written better, but it does a good job of explaining the process and a great deal of related minutia.
> And the first step cites five papers.
Come on now, if this isn't meant to paint it as some sort of inapproachable academic process (which is not the case at all) why mention it.
> But at no point (at whatever depth) does it tell me what to do.
Step Three absolutely clearly(ish) tells you what to do, and that step alone is enough to get a decent result. Yeah the formatting could be better, and yes there could be a quick start guide/TLDR that says "take a bunch of photos from a lot of angles without moving the object, drag them in and hit start" but come on, if you read through it it definitely does tell you what to do, hence the reading comprehension comment.
Regarding sarcasm, certainly at least the bit about "my enormous brain" fits the definition.
> mostly just pointing out that I had different expectations from a "step-by-step guide"
Let's not pretend you were doing your best to communicate this in good faith with your original comment, but I shouldn't have been insulting, again, sorry.
However you absolutely touched a nerve because as someone who's made it a point the last few years to try to switch to using only OSS Meshroom really does a comparatively bangup job of usability.
> Yes, but the step-by-step guide has eight steps.
Sure the guide could be written better, but it does a good job of explaining the process and a great deal of related minutia.
> And the first step cites five papers.
Come on now, if this isn't meant to paint it as some sort of inapproachable academic process (which is not the case at all) why mention it.
> But at no point (at whatever depth) does it tell me what to do.
Step Three absolutely clearly(ish) tells you what to do, and that step alone is enough to get a decent result. Yeah the formatting could be better, and yes there could be a quick start guide/TLDR that says "take a bunch of photos from a lot of angles without moving the object, drag them in and hit start" but come on, if you read through it it definitely does tell you what to do, hence the reading comprehension comment.
Regarding sarcasm, certainly at least the bit about "my enormous brain" fits the definition.