software question

[sack316]

hey all, hope everyone is doing well. I was just curious if anyone knows any good software to take sya a regular picture of any kind, and turn it into a 3d image. I was brainstorming on some stuff and something like this could be very useful.

[highsea]

Well, a regular photograph already is a 3D image. What exactly are you trying to do, get a dataset? I suppose you could try to take a photograph and convert it to a line drawing, then import it into AutoCad and do a 3D rendering, but I am not sure what you would gain, except a solid model. It would be useless as a dataset because there was no numerical data to start with.

[Chopstick]

<blockquote><font class="small">Quote highsea:</font><hr> Well, a regular photograph already is a 3D image. <hr /></blockquote>

You lost me on this one. How? /ccboard/images/graemlins/confused.gif

[Wally_in_Cincy]

I think he's talking about how they do that in tv commercials starting about 3 years ago.

[highsea]

<blockquote><font class="small">Quote Chopstick:</font><hr> You lost me on this one. How? /ccboard/images/graemlins/confused.gif <hr /></blockquote>I mean it's as much of a 3D image as a rendering would be. It's impossible to get a 3D image in a 2D medium.

That's why I was asking for clarification. Are we talking about a binocular view, like a viewmaster? Or a picture that needs funny glasses to "see" in 3D?

[ras314]

Maybe a holograph?

[nAz]

hi there Sack. As far as i know you need two pictures to simulate 3D there is a software " http://www.stereoscopy.com " that can help you make them using multiple images. you can also try Adobe Photoshop a couple of years ago i used a Plug-in for it that turned a pic of mine into "3d" came out ok, sorry i can not remember the name of the plug in.

[nAz]

hi there Sack. As far as i know you need two pictures to simulate 3D there is a software " http://www.stereoscopy.com " that can help you make them using multiple images. you can also try Adobe Photoshop a couple of years ago i used a Plug-in for it that turned a pic of mine into "3d" came out ok, sorry i can not remember the name of the plug in.

[highsea]

You can test the software out on nAz's last post. /ccboard/images/graemlins/grin.gif
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[sack316]

thanks for the responses guys. I was thinking I remembered something in Photoshop as well, I'll just have to dig deeper. I know whatever may work will be hard to render it out. To clarify what I was trying to do, I was thinking maybe taking a single picture (a 2D image IMO), and somehoe turn it into a fully 3D image sya like a character in a video game or something. I wanted to use it for animation of some sort. I really don't know why the idea popped in my head. Guess I figure it would be something hard to do that would frustrate me so I had to try it. Should be an interesting project to undertake.
Oh, and those commercials you talked about had a series of cameras ( I believe 8-16) in a circle around the object to create the effect. Pretty cool, but a tool I'll never have the luxury of.
Again, thanks for the help, and if anyone else finds anything or that photoshop plugin please let me know. Good night all!

[nAz]

<blockquote><font class="small">Quote highsea:</font><hr> You can test the software out on nAz's last post. /ccboard/images/graemlins/grin.gif
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Hahaha i just cought that. i was wondering what you were talking about. /ccboard/images/graemlins/smile.gif

[eg8r]

Here is a tool (http://www4.discreet.com/3dsmax/), 3ds Max, that allows you to make 3d images. I cannot remember if it is Mac only or not. TechTV had a 15yo demonstrating the tool. He was able to spit out 3d images (meaning your could rotate around a body and see the front and back, overhead looking down, etc) quite quickly, but there is a skillset involved and tons of time put into learning the tool.

eg8r

[sack316]

awesome eg8r, thanks!