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Making 3D Models from Video Clips

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the fun-toys dept.

BoingBoing is covering an interesting piece of software called VideoTrace that allows you to easily create 3D models from the images in video clips. "The user interacts with VideoTrace by tracing the shape of the object to be modeled over one or more frames of the video. By interpreting the sketch drawn by the user in light of 3D information obtained from computer vision techniques, a small number of simple 2D interactions can be used to generate a realistic 3D model."

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  1. Terrible link by masterz · · Score: 5, Informative

    wow, what a terrible link.

    A quick search turns up the project homepage http://www.acvt.com.au/research/videotrace/

  2. Software for 2D images for 3D models is not new by bn0p · · Score: 5, Informative

    Software like Canoma from the now-defunct Metacreations would let you create 3D models from 2D images in the mid-to-late 90s. I also remember reading about people using Viz ImageModeler to convert images from video to models even though the software is also designed for still images - the users would just capture those frames they needed to create the 3D model.

    The only thing "new" about this is using video as the input without having to grab the individual frames yourself.


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  3. Youtube by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vda2RAEuW_g