VideoTrace Will Blow Your MIND

Another Stumble Upon gem.

VideoTrace, a 3D modeling genorator (at least I think thats what it is), is a computer program used to create 3D models from real life pictures and film.  From what I understand, it’s pretty much Photoshop on 3D steroids.

VideoTrace is a system for interactively generating realistic 3D models of objects from video—models that might be inserted into a video game, a simulation environment, or another video sequence. The user interacts with VideoTrace by tracing the shape of the object to be modelled 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. Each of the sketching operations in VideoTrace provides an intuitive and powerful means of modelling shape from video, and executes quickly enough to be used interactively. Immediate feedback allows the user to model rapidly those parts of the scene which are of interest and to the level of detail required. The combination of automated and manual reconstruction allows VideoTrace to model parts of the scene not visible, and to succeed in cases where purely automated approaches would fail.

VideoTrace: Rapid interactive scene modelling from video from gallo1 on Vimeo.

Just think about it; you have this program, right? Then you import a porno… I’ll just leave you with that thought.

Tags: 3d rendering, photoshop, VideoTrace