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Point and Shoot 3D Modeling (Video)
Slashdot editor Tim Lord was wandering around SXSW and ran into a small display for Lynx Laboratories, a startup that makes this claim about its Lynx A camera: "If you can use a point-and-shoot Nikon, you'll find the Lynx even easier to use. Instead of outputing 2D images, it produces 3D models of whatever you point it at. It's faster and cheaper than existing solutions today." There's a two-minute demo at the end of the video in which Lynx Founder and CEO Chris Slaughter shows how it works, and (at least in his hands) it looks extremely easy. The company is a University of Texas spinoff that "has received prestigious awards including the 1st Place Idea2Product (I2P) Texas, 1st Place I2P Global, Top 10 Dell Innovators and National Science Foundation Small Business Innovation Research Funding." Naturally, they're hoping to raise money through Kickstarter as well. They're looking for $50,000 and as of 13 March 2013 it looks like they've raised $88,548 of it. There are obviously other ways to make 3-D images and models. But Lynx seems to have made a novel device, and the images it makes can be picked up directly by a number of 3D printer software packages. The Lynx-A also does motion capture, which could really speed up rotoscoping and other techniques that make video games and other animations look more lifelike than pure animation. That's totally different from static 3D modeling but might be more interesting to more people, at least in a commercial sense.
Hmmm... I don't see how ncurses can render a 3d image in a console... is that a new build option?
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If you already have a Kinect (or other) sensor and a laptop, this can be achieved with Skanect (http://skanect.manctl.com/).
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Why kickstart allows people to pledge more than the goal.
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It looks about the quality of "123D Catch" so I don't see the point.
They're looking for $50,000 and as of 13 March 2013 it looks like they've raised $88,548 of it.
That's fast... only -$38,548 to go!
The goal represents how much money the manufacturer thinks it will take to produce whatever it is they're pitching. But typically users pledge because they want to receive the product in return, and there's no limit on how many users can pledge. So it's quite possible to exceed that goal based on demand.
Additionally, people fundraising via Kickstarter often advertise "stretch goals"; these are additional features that the product will feature if they reach a particular level of funding beyond the goal.
This looks a lot like Autodesk's 123D Catch, but the bonus here is you don't have to sign up for an account with Autodesk.
I for one would be pretty excited to have my 3D scan data local, so I don't have to wait for Autodesk's cloud to do the processing or have my scans tracked by a third party. I'm kind of not cool with Autodesk having a model of the inside of my bedroom, for instance.
I once did a 123D scan of a model sculpted out of banana bread: http://zheng3.wordpress.com/2012/06/21/yes-we-have-no-bananas/ --the resolution's OK but I don't think I'd use this technology for anything that I planned to deform or edit too much. The geometry's just too dense to work with easily.
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Its an Asus branded Kinect mounted in a box with a laptop/tablet. :/
I cracked up when he said "create quality models" while showing something you would see in Playstation 2/XBOX game.
The amount of bullshit about supercomputers was hard to listen
Why pay $120 for Kinect when you can pay $1800 on Kickstarter!
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I met one of their devs at their table on Monday, and that's pretty much their pitch. The idea is that you can take scans and proof them in one go with a handheld gadget. If you've used 123D Catch, you know that you'll need to take a hundred or more shots of a single object to get a good scan. With this camera you can see if you've missed an occluded region or didn't catch a certain angle.
They scanned me at the booth, and given the 20 seconds or so it took to pan around me the model came out looking great. Unfortunately I forgot to ask for a copy of the model...
I think you can get something similar for free right now from Autodesk
Point and shoot 3D coffee table models. The future is going to be weird.
Better yet, point and shoot and print replicas of dicks and vulvas. So much easier than the shit they have now where you slather your junk in random chemicals to do the whole mold/cast shit.
This is like a lower resolution version of something that I've had on my iphone for a year already... Weird. Ever heard of 123d Catch by Autodesk????
I don't do the in-person interviews. Tim does them. Here. Let me help you figure that out by repeating part of the first sentence of the summary: "Slashdot editor Tim Lord was wandering around SXSW and ran into a small display..."
See? "Tim." Nice guy. Really. I've known him for years. And no, he doesn't take money for doing those videos.
I am a part-time hourly worker who edits and uploads videos. No more and no less.
Still, let me apologize on Tim's behalf for having had something positive to say about something.
To you, that obviously means it's a paid ad. Right?
After all, you are just about 100% negative, based on your Slashdot comment-posting history: http://slashdot.org/~RocketRabbit
Bunny, have you ever thought about getting a job or finding a girlfriend or at least finding something to be positive about once in a while?
If I can help, let me know.
- R
Don't be such a Pharisee, Rob. I'm just poking gentle fun at you for diluting the Slashdot that we all knew and loved. I'm sure you don't really have much of a say in the direction Dice has taken this site, and I certainly am not the only one complaining here about it.
Maybe you can take these complaints as they are - genuine.
Anyway thanks for not giving me the Slashdot death penalty here for saying this. Not sure what the status is on that feature, because it's been a long while since there was an updated release of the Slashcode.
Do they actually get around to showing it in action or is the whole 12 minutes just this guy talking?
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So then what *could* impress you, given that almost everything is based on someone else's work?
Unlabeled ad? Nope. That is an interesting conspiracy theory, but not reality :) They want to make money from it, certainly, but you misunderstand.
It's just an interesting product that I hadn't seen before -- Linux-based, cheap 3D modeling! -- that was on display in the maker-oriented sub-show called SXSW Create, across the way from the Board Forge project. (Also on Kickstarter, and which also wants to raise money; thinking about it that way, *these companies* are advertising simply by having a presence at a trade show, but we're showing them because they're making cool tech. If they want to buy advertising that appears on the site, they're free to -- we are an ad-supported site, after all -- but the editorial side doesn't handle that, nor do we select or approve the ads that run.)
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I don't mind if you or anyone else at Slashdot posts stuff like this when it's relevant and interesting, which this one is. I don't evenm care if you get money for it, though it should be labeled as such if so. As long as it's relevant and ionteresting to me, that's what I care about. It Slashdot makes a few bucks in the process, then fine - win/win.
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I don't know for a fact if Slashdot got money for this or any other posting, and I don't care if you do. But remember that I come to Slashdot for that "geek mentality", for thing that are interesting to genuine geeks. Don't dilute your brand. If my non-geek friends would have any idea what a posting here is about, then it shouldn't be here.