{"id":7948,"date":"2018-12-22T08:04:22","date_gmt":"2018-12-22T16:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=7948"},"modified":"2018-12-22T08:04:23","modified_gmt":"2018-12-22T16:04:23","slug":"google-mit-researchers-create-3d-sculptures-from-human-motion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/22\/google-mit-researchers-create-3d-sculptures-from-human-motion\/","title":{"rendered":"Google &#038; MIT researchers create 3D sculptures from human motion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Around here there\u2019s carpentry &amp; there\u2019s alchemy. I do the former; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.mit.edu\/2018\/creating-3-d-printed-motion-sculptures-from-2-d-videos-mit-csail-0919\">these folks<\/a>, on the other hand&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/i0WpFwBuXvI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Given an input video, the system first automatically detects 2-D key points on the subject\u2019s body, such as the hip, knee, and ankle of a ballerina while she\u2019s doing a complex dance sequence. Then, it takes the best possible poses from those points to be turned into 3-D \u201cskeletons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After stitching these skeletons together, the system generates a motion sculpture that can be 3-D-printed, showing the smooth, continuous path of movement traced out by the subject. Users can customize their figures to focus on different body parts, assign different materials to distinguish among parts, and even customize lighting.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NewImage.png\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/NewImage-17.png\" alt=\"NewImage\" width=\"600\" height=\"301\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NewImage.png\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/NewImage-18.png\" alt=\"NewImage\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/i0WpFwBuXvI\">YouTube<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around here there\u2019s carpentry &amp; there\u2019s alchemy. I do the former; these folks, on the other hand&#8230; Given an input video, the system first automatically detects 2-D key points on the subject\u2019s body, such as the hip, knee, and ankle of a ballerina while she\u2019s doing a complex dance sequence. Then, it takes the best [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7948"}],"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=7948"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7961,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7948\/revisions\/7961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}