There’s a new 3D modeling playa in town and you don’t have to dink around with any messy features or geometry to create. It does, however, have to already exist. You’ll also need the ability to “maintain perpendicular & spatial distance between photos within a sequence” to take a few snapshots.
After that, it’s a simple upload. And as long as the 10-15 images overlap 80-90%, you’ll be all set to have a nice 3-dimensional bump-map automatically generated. Here’s a bit more.
The technology behind the 3Dsee website is an 8 year stint into the research of 3D imaging by Dr. David McKinnon from the Queensland University of Technology.
Instead of 3D animators working from a set of photos to model an object or using a cumbersome laser scanner, this software can create 3D models directly from a series of photos, which is a great time and money saver.” – PhysOrg
To render it, you’ll need a program like MeshLab (Free) to import the .ply format file. From there, you can save it out with a format (OBJ, 3DS, COLLADA, etc.) accepted by most rendering programs. Try it out. Get your bump-map on.
Via Slashdot
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This concept is not new, but is definitely a “holy grail” for reverse engineering/prototyping applications. I've tried similar programs, and it seems like there's a lot more manual effort involved to getting results you really want.
It looks like these guys have an innovative approach, although it looks like it will only work for one view of the object. Other programs, like PhotoModeler (http://www.photomodeler.com/index.htm) allow you to construct the model from all views/angles, but again, it is still a very involved process.
Cool stuff!
This is great and like was said it is not new but a great innovation of the existing technology. Still one could easliy take 2-3-4-5 differing views and stitch them together with some freeware like meshlab. Anyhow I am really disappointed that I have tried with 3 different emails to get a account and I still have yet to hear back from them, I left a message for them on the site but still this is one MAJOR drawback to them actually getting this main stream.
This is great and like was said it is not new but a great innovation of the existing technology. Still one could easliy take 2-3-4-5 differing views and stitch them together with some freeware like meshlab. Anyhow I am really disappointed that I have tried with 3 different emails to get a account and I still have yet to hear back from them, I left a message for them on the site but still this is one MAJOR drawback to them actually getting this main stream.
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