2 HN users recommended this demo2 months2013–2024score 2.5
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HN recalls it as a mind-blowing pre-AI demo of 2D-to-3D object extraction.
A SIGGRAPH Asia 2013 research demo of 3-Sweep, a tool for extracting editable 3D objects from a single photo using a few user strokes. It predates modern AI image tools.
“this single video blew my mind back in *2013* and I find myself thinking about it often.” (HN, 2024)
SIGGRAPH from over a decade ago has entered the chat... [this video] It may not be AI, but this single video blew my mind back in *2013* and I find myself thinking about it often.
Mind-blowing 2013 non-AI object extraction from a single photo.
Lots of interesting research being done on this, keep an eye out for stuff from SIGGRAPH later this month. Here's an example from SIGGRAPH Asia: [this video] .
Example of SIGGRAPH Asia research on 3D object extraction.
That is correct. Sometime in the future, consumers will have software that can turn 2D images into simulated 3D [0]. It's still in dev mode right now, though. [0] [this video]
>SIGGRAPH from over a decade ago has entered the chat... > > [this video] A version of this was available in Photoshop for a long time, but I think the feature was deprecated and removed completely this year. I had used it for a few things here and there, but dedicated 3D tools were much better if you were working in that space.
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