From: Jeffrey Everett (jeffery@iowatelecom.net)
Date: Wed Jul 31 2002 - 09:35:53 EEST
I gave this quite a bit of thought several years ago in order to create 3D medallions of baby portraits (I'm a jewelry manufacturer). I even did several tests using various techniques and got some decent results, but they took a LOT of work to produce so I gave up on it as too costly.
Heightfield bitmaps don't work very well unless they incorporate intelligent depth algorthms based on 3D facial features, unless of course you desire a highly foreshortened and flattened 3D image (like that on a coin but not nearly as nice). I don't think the software is written yet to do what you want unless you want to spend a bunch of money to adapt existing facial reconstruction software, and I'm way out of my league even mentioning something like that! (I think that kind of software uses point clouds from CAT scans or MRI)
Jeffrey Everett
----- Original Message -----
From: mehmetsalim@arpastr.com
To: rp-ml@rapid.lpt.fi
Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 11:54 PM
Subject: RE: JPEG to 3D Solids
Dear Dan,
For this kind of application you can use may be the software Artcam. Artcam can make 180 Degree models maybe you can split your digititized photo in 4 pieces and then after modeling you cam export them out as an .stl file and join them in any other software.
There are many other softwares like ArtCAM those can make models from grayscale .bmp files.
regards,
-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Sammons [mailto:dan@dpt-fast.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 11:41 PM
To: rp-ml@rapid.lpt.fi
Subject: JPEG to 3D Solids
Does anyone know of a process or software that would take a digital image (photo) and somehow result in a 3D solids / model? The application is based around a request to take a digital picture of a human head and create a 3d model.
Thanks for your help.
Dan Sammons
Design Prototyping Technologies, Inc.
6713 Collamer Road
East Syracuse, New York 13057
315-434-1869 voice
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