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Community => Mess Hall => Topic started by: -<WillyP>- on August 24, 2011, 03:52:49 PM

Title: 3D models from photos?
Post by: -<WillyP>- on August 24, 2011, 03:52:49 PM

Apparently you can take photos of an object with a standard camera and this new software from Autodesk can convert them to a 3D model.

Autodesk Labs Utilities Project Photofly 2.1 (http://labs.autodesk.com/utilities/photo_scene_editor/)

DIY 3D Manufacturing from Digital Photos (http://thekneeslider.com/archives/2011/08/24/diy-3d-manufacturing-from-digital-photos/)

Title: Re: 3D models from photos?
Post by: Matthew on August 24, 2011, 11:31:27 PM

oshi-. That's epic if it actually works. Wonder if it'd work for movie captures as well?

Title: Re: 3D models from photos?
Post by: Scyphi on August 25, 2011, 06:35:25 AM

Really, really, cool!  ;D

To answer your question, IHateHackers, it seems that in order to make an accurate detailed model, you need more than one photo of said object from multiple angles (in a vid i watched explaining it, ten is indicated to be around the ideal number). So for screengrabs from movies, if it's just one, then no dice. If several with different angles, then by the sound of it, yes.

Either way, this is pretty cool technology. I think the ability to do this before has been around, but it wasn't nearly fine-tuned enough to make it readily available for the public to use.

Title: Re: 3D models from photos?
Post by: Shroudeye on August 25, 2011, 08:44:15 AM

I'll be testing it right now.
If it actually works, it can change the way we do our models.

I mean, its... W-O-W.

Title: Re: 3D models from photos?
Post by: Ronin RedFox on August 25, 2011, 09:54:26 AM

I know there was a program a while back for blender, that if you had a web camera, and an IR laser, you could scan the object and get it nearly perfect every time.

Title: Re: 3D models from photos?
Post by: Shroudeye on August 25, 2011, 10:43:52 AM

This one is without any IR, its just requires a cam and a strong box.

Title: Re: 3D models from photos?
Post by: Matthew on August 25, 2011, 04:30:39 PM

You don't need a strong computer, it's cloud-based.

Title: Re: 3D models from photos?
Post by: Kaiaatzl on August 25, 2011, 05:20:01 PM

Quote from: Shroudeye on August 25, 2011, 08:44:15 AM

I'll be testing it right now.
If it actually works, it can change the way we do our models.

I mean, its... W-O-W.

Are you shoked?  :D

Title: Re: 3D models from photos?
Post by: Shroudeye on August 26, 2011, 04:01:04 AM

Quote from: Kaiaatsel on August 25, 2011, 05:20:01 PM

Are you shoked?  :D

Feeling soooo WENL! :D :D

Title: Re: 3D models from photos?
Post by: Matthew on August 26, 2011, 08:21:13 AM

Wait, is this free?

Title: Re: 3D models from photos?
Post by: Foil on August 26, 2011, 08:36:41 AM

It's currently a "technology preview".