New software!!!

**DanBKing** · #1 09-12-2013, 02:45 AM

Ladies and Gentlemen.... Check this out!!!

If this software is not designed for us paper modelers, I dont know what is!!!!!

The possibilities are staggering!!!!!

http://www.wired.com/design/2013/09/jaw-dropping-software-that-makes-3d-models-from-any-old-photograph/

**Oldenburger67** · #2 09-12-2013, 03:06 AM

Hello Dan BKing,

this looks really great.
In the demo it looks quite promissing!

But the question is only if it also works on much more complex structures, for example ships, especially if the objects are asymetrical.

I am wondering if it comes to the market.

As a Blender Fan, i just have to wait until this feature is integrated into Blender ;-))))

Thank you for the hint

Thomas

**retunga** · #3 09-12-2013, 03:34 AM

Now that would be cool to get hold of, it would help with a lot of design work.

Oldenburger67 one would break the deisgn up into lots of smaller designs and work it from there....

**thorst** · #4 09-12-2013, 04:29 AM

I agree, that's fantastic! Especially I like the way it matches perspectives.
But I fear it won't be able to handle other than the primitive forms. The example of the tube of toothpaste clearly shows it's limits.
Other than that, the video was a joy to watch!

**Kevin WS** · #5 09-12-2013, 04:35 AM

Very interesting - and with lots of potential.

Maybe not real useful now, but if developed in a few years, who knows?

**CNT** · #6 09-12-2013, 12:38 PM

Reminds me of the algorithm that turn Escher into 3D models. Seems to be the same researchers. The program seems to key of the conic cap of the toothpaste and follows that everything is conic. But the end of the tube does not follow a conic projection so some modification should make use of the fact.

**papercruiser** · #7 09-12-2013, 08:33 PM

Pretty amazing... this stuff will only get better and better

**SJPONeill** · #8 09-12-2013, 10:43 PM

This technology has actually been around for a while and is capable of rendering very high resolution 3D images from a series of 2D images...the site is Areo - Areograph and if you search on youtube for hawkeyeuav you will see how this technology is used for creating very hi-rez 3D images of terrain and built-up areas using imagery captured from a small unmanned aircraft. From memory Areo got their big break when they were contracted 5-6 years ago to create many of the buildings and vehicle models in the video game America's Army as an alternative to creating all the models using traditional CAD techniques...

Edit: just looking at the video clip: they have edited it since I last looked at it a few years ago - it used to have a Areo landrover model with resolution some fine that the individual leaves on the camouflage net were recreated...