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02.03.083D Models from Still PhotosStanford University has developed a program that has a 65% success rate in translating 2D photos into 3D models. Taken a step or two further, you can imagine taking a photo, converting to a 3D mesh, and easily uploading to Google earth, into a modeling program for tweaking, and importing into virtual worlds. The real comes to the virtual just as the virtual is starting to arrive in the real.
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01.31.08Computerized CraftThe promise of 3D virtual sculpting has taken a step forward with the work of computer scientists at the Stanford Virtual Worlds Group. While aimed at platforms other than Second Life, the objective is to take the pain out of creating complex objects. Headed by Vladlen Kolten, the group is beginning to make 3D trees in order to prove that object construction can be sophisticated without being difficult. But why trees, you might ask? Botanists have catalogued trees in great detail over the centuries, categorizing things such as trunk width, leaf type, and limb spacing. Armed with this information, the Stanford group ...
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