{"id":11364,"date":"2007-01-14T10:41:57","date_gmt":"2007-01-14T10:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2007\/01\/more-fascinating-3d-face-bits.html"},"modified":"2007-01-14T10:41:57","modified_gmt":"2007-01-14T10:41:57","slug":"more_fascinating_3d_face_bits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/14\/more_fascinating_3d_face_bits\/","title":{"rendered":"More fascinating 3D face bits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow&#8211;Friday&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2007\/01\/funky_faces_of.html\">face-finds<\/a> were pretty cool, but this technology takes things in a whole new direction.&#160; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mpi-sb.mpg.de\/~blanz\/\"> Volker Blanz<\/a> and his collaborators have analyzed hundreds of human faces, then built a representative mesh that can be adjusted along various axes (male to female, young to old, gaunt to fleshy, etc.).&#160; The model can then be mapped to a photo in order to reshape a face (e.g. open a mouth, add a smile), change its orientation in space, or even replace it altogether.&#160; This<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nice6NYb_WA&amp;eurl\">5-minute video<\/a>     is well worth a watch, and you can find additional bits on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mpi-sb.mpg.de\/~blanz\/\">Volker&#8217;s site<\/a>.&#160; I can imagine tons of potential applications.&#160; [Via Gregg Wilensky] <\/p>\n<p>Speaking of mixing 2D &amp; 3D, at Macworld Google demoed a new version of SketchUp, the simple-to-use 3D package they acquired last year.&#160; It features tools that in some ways resemble Photoshop&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/av.adobe.com\/russellbrown\/InstantExteriorSM.mov\">Vanishing Point<\/a>, allowing users to attach planes &amp; other shapes to a photo, then generate 3D artwork; check out this <a href=\"http:\/\/sketchup.google.com\/gsu6vtviewer.html#id=1\">demo video<\/a>.&#160; (Careful: On #3 the demo artist&#8217;s frenetic zooming is a little nausea-inducing. ;-))   Whereas VP is geared towards painting\/cloning\/healing in perspective, SketchUp is geared toward building full 3D models.&#160; Nifty stuff.&#160; [<a href=\"http:\/\/prolost.blogspot.com\/2007\/01\/google-sketchup-6-photo-match.html\">Via<\/a>] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow&#8211;Friday&#8217;s face-finds were pretty cool, but this technology takes things in a whole new direction.&#160; Volker Blanz and his collaborators have analyzed hundreds of human faces, then built a representative mesh that can be adjusted along various axes (male to female, young to old, gaunt to fleshy, etc.).&#160; The model can then be mapped to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11364"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}