Blowing up across the 3D printing Internet last week was the following video, which demonstrated a software with the ability to convert 2D photographs into complete 3D models, possibly opening up a whole new method for creating 3D-printable objects: Developed by researchers at Tel Aviv University, Tao Chen, Zhe Zhu, Ariel Shamir, Shi-Min Hu, and Daniel Cohen-Or, the software, called 3-Sweep, is meant to make 3D modeling accessible to anyone, regardless of skill level. By relying on the intuitive capacities of human perception in tandem with the algorithms of a computer program, users can identify objects and their relative depths, while the software detects edges and generates a texture map.…
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