[Bf-committers] 2d Image to 3d?

[Johnny Matthews]

sorry for double post, click on the Imagemodeler link 

http://www.realviz.com/image_processing_software.htm


On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 07:25:48 -0600, Johnny Matthews
<johnny.matthews at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think Austin may have seen this before and it is what he is wanting.
> It is pretty dang cool
> 
> http://www.realviz.com/image_processing_software.htm
> 
> 
> On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 08:04:32 -0500, Robert Wenzlaff (AB8TD)
> <rwenzlaff at soylent-green.com> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 16 February 2005 06:33, Alexander Ewering wrote:
> > > > For once Alex is totally wrong here...
> > >
> > > I don't even need to read your pdf because I know I'm right Q:)
> >
> > You're both right.  A perfect representation from 3 view using just an outline
> > is impossible.  Imagine a sphere.  All three images would be circles.  If you
> > intersect 3 orthagonal cylinders, you get a shape that would give you your 3
> > circles, but it wouldn't be a sphere.
> >
> > That said, a script that did the orthagonal extude and intersect trick would
> > work for many shapes and might give a useful starting approximation where it
> > doesn't.
> >
> > I saw a somewhat related Blender tute where a person recorded himself sitting
> > in a spinny office chair.  He paused for a few sect every every 10 deg (IIRC,
> > he used a protractor with holes drilled in it and a wire taped to the chair's
> > base).  He used this as a backgound image and traced the outline while
> > rotating the mesh to match his position.
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