There is technology being used currently the construction industry to take a set of arial 2D photographs and turn this into a 3D model.
On a similar subject, a colleague at NBS pointed me at the following website which constructs a 3D face from a 2D photograph.
– http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~psxasj/3dme/index.php
It’s pretty clever stuff – and easy to play around with for free if you have a spare two minutes.
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| Select a pre-loaded example – or upload a face of your own |
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| Not just a 2D face |
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| …but spin it around and it’s an OBJ file created with intelligence about the depth of face features |
A little creepy, but give it a try…
– http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~psxasj/3dme/index.php
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