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Turn Photos into 3D Models

100 points| omarfarooq | 4 years ago |r3dphoto.app | reply

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[+] thot_experiment|4 years ago|reply
If you can, don't fuck with this shit and use/support open source software.

https://alicevision.org/#meshroom

[+] kmlx|4 years ago|reply
all for open source, but these are two different products.

from their website:

> To fully utilize Meshroom, a NVIDIA CUDA-enabled GPU is recommended. The binaries are built with CUDA-10 and are compatible with compute capability 3.0 to 7.5. Without a supported NVIDIA GPU, only "Draft Meshing" can be used for 3D reconstruction.

versus an easy to use iphone app.

[+] moffkalast|4 years ago|reply
Yeah was about to say "so.. meshroom but restricted to iphones only?". No thanks.
[+] sixothree|4 years ago|reply
The thing that immediately turned me off about it is the fact that it is a phone app. Mobile apps all just feel like creepy spyware to me lately.

"Send us photos of the things you are working on". Creepy weirdos is all I can think.

[+] KarlKemp|4 years ago|reply
Yes, but the step-by-step guide has eight steps. And the first step cites five papers. But at no point (at whatever depth) does it tell me what to do.
[+] boriskourt|4 years ago|reply
I've been using 3D Scanner App [0] for almost two years now. And it has been free and very feature rich this whole time. So many very helpful export options, as well as a nice frontend. I've also made use of getting the raw data here and there. Its hard for me to tell what this adds over that. And like another comment points out, this looks like a thin wrapper over the tools already provided by Apple.

[0]: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/3d-scanner-app/id1419913995

[+] lorenzhs|4 years ago|reply
The App Store page says "Simply take photos of an object from all angles and upload them to our service, and we will create and send you a 3D model ready for 3D printing, Augmented Reality and our web app r3Dent." so not it appears to use some kind of server-side processing. So it's not even on-device.
[+] ant6n|4 years ago|reply
Too bad it’s iPhone 12 and iPad Pro only.
[+] schappim|4 years ago|reply
Looks like the same tech we used at https://usdz.app . It will be very interesting to see what new APIs Apple brings out this WWDC. Hopefully the photogrammetry API makes its way from macOS to iOS.

In the mean time, if someone wanted to make their own app, they could use: https://usdz.app/api

[+] causality0|4 years ago|reply
I want one of these 3D photo apps but geared for object replication rather than art projects and videogames. Like let me scan an object then add measurements to it that let me more perfectly recreate it, such as identifying curves for me to input a measured radius, asking whether this section is supposed to be a straight edge or a flat plain or a perfect cylinder.
[+] SV_BubbleTime|4 years ago|reply
My experience with professional solutions a few years ago was that it worked well for large areas but the tolerances weren’t anywhere near good enough.

A “trick” seems to be that it looks great with the photos overlayed as textures, but the actual 3D data without that isn’t nearly as impressive.

[+] waynecochran|4 years ago|reply
3D model flavor? Point cloud, triangle/quad mesh? Texture map + normal map?
[+] kingludite|4 years ago|reply
The way the story ends with "then you export it" has me somewhat confused.
[+] gandalfian|4 years ago|reply
Take photos in a circle around object sounds suspiciously like object vr. Usefull but old. But it also suggests it may be using an iPhones lidar face sensors to scan the object which would be quite cool. There are no obvious examples though? and I don't have an iPhone with face recognition so who knows. Rather vague on prices to export models?
[+] madduci|4 years ago|reply
Seems like it's a hot topic and there are a lot of clones lately in the App Store. And probably Nvidia after its latest demo is disrupting the market again.

The only one that I think offers a cool demo/use case is Holograms.

[+] mdrzn|4 years ago|reply
This is DEFINITELY not free but there's no info on the whole website about prices.

I'm not gonna download and figure out.

[+] darylteo|4 years ago|reply
Great. I look forward to the 100 more queries about "can we add this to our app".
[+] totalview|4 years ago|reply
How many of these apps do we need before people stop thinking this is a new and novel idea?
[+] flor1s|4 years ago|reply
You also have a pretty heavyweight competitor with Epic Games (RealityScan).