{"id":18665,"date":"2021-10-29T07:46:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T14:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=18665"},"modified":"2021-10-28T08:56:42","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T15:56:42","slug":"mental-canvas-enables-3d-drawing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/29\/mental-canvas-enables-3d-drawing\/","title":{"rendered":"Mental Canvas enables 3D drawing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>10 years ago we put a totally gratuitous (but fun!) 3D view of the layers stack into Photoshop Touch. You couldn&#8217;t actually edit in that mode, but people loved seeing their 2D layers with 3D parallax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More recently apps are endeavoring to turn 2D photos into 3D canvases via depth analysis (see <a href=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/20\/adobe-researchers-show-off-new-depth-estimation-tech-for-regular-images\/\">recent Adobe research<\/a>), object segmentation, etc. That is, of course, an extension of what we had in mind when adding 3D to Photoshop back in 2007 (!)\u2014but depth capture &amp; extrapolation weren&#8217;t widely available, and it proved too difficult to shoehorn everything into the PS editing model.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mentalcanvas.com\/\">Mental Canvas<\/a> promises to enable some truly deep expressivity:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mental Canvas Customer Video\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/D-4QlwmY3fo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I do wonder how many people could put it to good use. (Drawing well is hard; drawing well in 3D&#8230;?)\u00a0<em>I Want To Believe\u2026<\/em> It\u2019ll be cool to see where this goes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10 years ago we put a totally gratuitous (but fun!) 3D view of the layers stack into Photoshop Touch. You couldn&#8217;t actually edit in that mode, but people loved seeing their 2D layers with 3D parallax. More recently apps are endeavoring to turn 2D photos into 3D canvases via depth analysis (see recent Adobe research), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18665"}],"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=18665"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18668,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18665\/revisions\/18668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}