Volume.gl – 3D Model from Single Image

Re:Volume.gl – 3D Model from Single Image by VikingCoder on Friday March 09, 2018 @10:08AM (#16552206)

Shitty 3D is worse than 2D.

Source: I worked really hard to make 3D less shitty, and we failed at it, and went out of business.

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Re:Volume.gl – 3D Model from Single Image by dang on Friday March 09, 2018 @01:19PM (#16553661)

That sounds interesting. What did you do and why do you think it failed?

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Re:Volume.gl – 3D Model from Single Image by VikingCoder on Friday March 09, 2018 @01:39PM (#16553826)

We turned a bunch of 2D images into 3D models, for viewing online. Back in 2000.

It partially failed due to the dot com collapse sucking all the oxygen out of the room.

It also failed because the technology wasn't good enough, and the resulting 3D was, frankly, pretty shitty.

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Re:Volume.gl – 3D Model from Single Image by rubidium on Friday March 09, 2018 @07:36PM (#16556346)

Photogrammetry seems to have advanced since then. Would you agree?

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Re:Volume.gl – 3D Model from Single Image by VikingCoder on Monday March 12, 2018 @10:02PM (#16573387)

Yes.

But as impressive as creating this from a single image may be, the people viewing it won't care - the output is uselessly bad.

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Re:Volume.gl – 3D Model from Single Image by kdma on Friday March 09, 2018 @02:55PM (#16554454)

Volume rendering?

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Re:Volume.gl – 3D Model from Single Image by VikingCoder on Monday March 12, 2018 @10:03PM (#16573391)

We did lots of ways, then.

In the interim, I worked with true volume rendering of CT, MR, PET data for a decade.

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