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creating 3d images from a picture

Asked by: mitesh114

Are there any engines which allow you to upload an image and then create the 3d version of that picture automatically?  

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2009-08-24 at 15:00:33ID24678193
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Answers

 

by: Rh1noPosted on 2009-08-26 at 10:50:05ID: 25190297

Hello mitesh114,

An automatic 3D representation of an image I believe is very limited in the industry at the moment. If you mean creating a 3D Mesh from an image that is another story. There is many programs out there that you are able to create a 3D mesh from a photo like 3D Studio max, Auto Desk Maya, and other 3D applications.

I think that you are trying to do something like this though but I could be wrong.

http://make3d.stanford.edu/

This site allows you to change your image (2D) into a 3D fly around image automatically.

 

by: DoomlordPosted on 2009-08-30 at 02:22:14ID: 25216892

Hey there mitesh114 !

Automatically making an actual 3d mesh from only a picture is impossible to do automatically as there isn't enough information to create the 3d model.
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If you are looking to do a basrelief mesh out of a photo that is a whole other story. You can use a (white and black) displacement map to form an actual 3d mesh or a normal map for the ilusion of a 3d mesh. All of those are done in most of the major 3d applications like the expensive Autodesk 3ds max/Maya/XSI to the free Blender.

You could create another illusion of a 3d space using an image and Z-Depth image composed of a white and black scale (white representing the closest point and black the farthest). This is used mostly for compositing though.

 

by: JoseParrotPosted on 2009-09-09 at 21:00:34ID: 25297325

Lets consider two definitions for 3D model.

1. Real 3D objects
Doesn't exist an application which reads a bitmap image (JPEG, BMP, etc.), identify objects and creates their 3D models, by exporting them to 3d formats (3ds, max, obj, dxf, etc.). It is possible to develop a program for that purpose, but it would be very limited to special situations.

2. Elevation maps
There are some programs around, capable of read a bitmap image (or create one) and interpretates the colors or gray levels as heights to create a 3D mesh. Such technique is used to construct terrains, as in Bryce http://www.daz3d.com/ (paid) and Terragen http://www.planetside.co.uk/terragen/productmain.shtml (free).

Jose

 

 

by: JoseParrotPosted on 2009-09-11 at 20:50:27ID: 25315009

As a matter of clarification, follows the 2D image used by Terragen as an elevation map to create the 3D landscape.

Jose

 

by: JoseParrotPosted on 2009-10-20 at 19:19:27ID: 25620382

Right now I saw at Computer Graphics World magazine interesting news on the 2D to 3D conversion. Not source code, but a commercial offer from Prime Focus, one of the world's largest visual entertainment services groups.

It has launched View-D, a proprietary 2D-to-3D conversion process that enables filmmakers to create stereoscopic 3D movies from source material shot on virtually any medium. View-D will be introduced at international launch events in Mumbai, London, and Los Angeles to unveil the Prime Focus global rebrand, in which Post Logic and Frantic Films VFX will be brought together under the Prime Focus name.

I don't have details, but seems a heavy computer graphics process specific for movies, assumimg that 3d models can be extracted from a series of images such that the models are viewed from several points of view, thuas allowing to "deduce" its 3d shape.

Jose

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