{"id":12622,"date":"2008-01-14T08:40:07","date_gmt":"2008-01-14T08:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2008\/01\/wicked-cool-building-a-3d-model-from-video.html"},"modified":"2008-01-14T08:40:07","modified_gmt":"2008-01-14T08:40:07","slug":"wicked_cool_building_a_3d_model_from_video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/14\/wicked_cool_building_a_3d_model_from_video\/","title":{"rendered":"Wicked cool: Building a 3D model from video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s something pretty well guaranteed to put a smile on your face, I think: the Australian Centre for Visual Technologies has developed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acvt.com.au\/research\/videotrace\/\">VideoTrace<\/a>, &quot;a system for interactively generating realistic 3D models of objects from video.&quot;&#160; A user sketches a few surfaces, after which the system works to generate 3D data.&#160; The short video demonstration is a little ho-hum until near the middle, which is where the uncontested smiling begins. \ud83d\ude09 [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kottke.org\">Via<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p> This demo makes me think of Strata&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strata.com\/foto3d.asp\">Foto 3D<\/a>, a tool for generating 3D models from within Photoshop, using just a series of photographs.&#160; By placing an object onto a specially printed piece of paper, then shooting it from a variety of angles, you give the software enough info to generate a 3D model that can then live as a 3D layer in Photoshop CS3 Extended.<\/p>\n<p>It also reminds me of Extended&#8217;s ability to set 3D planes on a photograph using its Vanishing Point plug-in, then export the results as 3D data for use in After Effects and other tools.&#160; With it you can export <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/adobe\/photoshop\/VanishingPointDemo.jpg\">an image like this<\/a> as 3D data, then set camera movement in AE and create <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/adobe\/photoshop\/VanishingPointDemo.mov\">an animation like this<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s something pretty well guaranteed to put a smile on your face, I think: the Australian Centre for Visual Technologies has developed VideoTrace, &quot;a system for interactively generating realistic 3D models of objects from video.&quot;&#160; A user sketches a few surfaces, after which the system works to generate 3D data.&#160; The short video demonstration is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12622"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}