Tag: 3d

3D display

ETH built this 3d display out of 1000s of leds. you can view the 3d action from any angle

Contour Reality Capture

100k polygons, no markers necessary

KML Walkthroughs

KML meets architecture. now they only need to upload them to the 3d warehouse

CyberExtruder

you can now create your avatar from your passport picture inside SL. smart move for cyber extruder. their free version was fun to play with a couple years ago.

Brute Force Data

filling holes in images, finding and segmenting objects, recovering 3D scene geometry from an image, and inserting objects into new scenes.

Google COLLADA

i look forward to actually see collada in action

3D Animation From Photos

Motion Portrait has developed a remarkable program capable of taking still photos of peoples faces and rapidly animating them in 3D.

Photo Measurement

VisualSize will be launching shortly with a service that will give accurate 3D measurements of things inside of 2D photos. To measure things accurately they need 2 photos of the same thing, but from different angles. The VisualSize algorithm automatically detects feature points in the 2 pictures and finds the matching pairs. It then uses the matching pairs to calculate coordinates of the 2 camera positions (x, y, z axes and origin in a 3D coordinate frame), and uses triangulation from the image to plane to the 3D coordinate frame to reconstruct the 3D scene. VisualSize can then measure length, angle, area and volume with a high degree of accuracy.

cool that this is becoming more mainstream. it is, of course, a mainstay for topographic maps.