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List:       linux-newbie
Subject:    RE: 3d modelling
From:       "Little, Chris" <Chris.Little () okdhs ! org>
Date:       2002-11-25 15:05:13
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you might also take a look at blender.  i believe they recently GPL'd the
source.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Furness [mailto:paul.furness@vil.ite.mee.com]
> Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 3:28 AM
> To: Andrew Langdon-Davies
> Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: 3d modelling
> 
> 
> Andrew, 
> 
> I'm afraid that I never got very far with this, but for what 
> it's worth:
> 
> It depends on what you mean by modeling. If you want to create a 3D
> surface, then wrap the photograph around it, there are a number of
> things available (such as Povray, BMRT) which will do it one 
> image at a
> time for you. To do it in real time (such as a game) seems to involve
> writing your own code, or using something like 3D Studio Max on a
> windows machine (it _may_ work under Wine, but I never tried it).
> 
> If you want to "take a stereo pair of images and create a model" or
> "take a number of cross-sectional images and create a model" 
> then I also
> looked into this a short while ago, but didn't come up with 
> anything. I
> also looked around for Windows software, but couldn't find anything
> either.
> 
> What do you want to do with the model - this will affect the kind of
> model you produce (or at least the format of the data)
> 
> Paul.
> 
> On Fri, 2002-11-22 at 18:01, Andrew Langdon-Davies wrote:
> > Is there anything available in Linux for 3-D modelling from 
> photographs?
> > TIA
> > Andrew
> > 
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