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Comment Re:Misleading title (Score 1) 152

by ALoopingIcon (#28648643) Attached to: Software Converts 2D Images To 3D
The concept is not completely new. There is a vast literature on the reconstruction of 3D objects from image sequences, ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure_from_motion ) Beyond the well known Photosynth (that does NOT reconstruct a dense surface) there are other free tools that allow to create complete 3D objects from photo sequences.

Arc3d and MeshLab can provide tools for reconstructing full 3D objects like a href="http://meshlab.sourceforge.net/SnapMeshLab.AO2.png. "> this one.

Disclaimer (I am involved with MeshLab devel)
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Steve Jobs Takes Leave of Absence From Apple 429

Posted by timothy from the get-well-soon dept.
An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from Network World: "A number of sites are reporting that Apple's CEO Steve Jobs is taking a leave of absence till June at least. Speculation over Jobs' possibly failing health has run rampant in the past few weeks. Prior to the recent MacWorld show, Jobs said he had a hormone deficiency that had caused him to dramatically lose weight. In a memo today Jobs told workers his health issues are more complex than he thought." Reader Bastian227 adds a link to this letter from Steve Jobs on Apple's website, which also says that Tim Cook will be responsible for daily operations, though Jobs will remain involved with major strategic decisions.
Displays

A 3-D Holographic Display 53

Posted by kdawson from the you-are-our-only-hope dept.
ZonkerWilliam sends along a link to a Wired writeup on a novel 3-D holographic display developed at USC. Be sure to watch the video at the bottom of the page. "The process is not simple but can be defined through a few key concepts: Spinning mirrors, high-speed DLP Projections, and very precise math that figures out the correct axial perspective needed for a 360-degree image (even taking into account a viewer's positioning.)"
Power

US Halts Applications For Solar Energy Projects 481

Posted by kdawson from the think-of-the-mojave-ground-squirrels dept.
Dekortage writes "The US Bureau of Land Management, overwhelmed by applications for large-scale solar energy plants, has declared a two-year freeze on applications for new projects until it completes an extensive environmental impact study. The study will produce 'a single set of environmental criteria to weigh future solar proposals, which will ultimately speed the application process.' The freeze means that current applications will continue to be processed — plants producing enough electricity for 20 million average American homes — but no new applications will be accepted until the study is complete. Solar power companies are worried that this will harm the industry just as it is poised for explosive growth. Some note that gas and oil projects are booming in the southwestern states most favorable to solar development. Another threat looming over the solar industry is that federal tax credits must be renewed in Congress, else they will expire this year."
Graphics

Submission + - MeshLab (sourceforge.net)

Submitted by ALoopingIcon
ALoopingIcon writes: http://meshlab.sourceforge.net/
AcrobatReader can display 3D objects embedded into PDF documents. Until now the only way to create this kind of impressive documents was by mean of the official acrobat 3D suite. Now MeshLab an open source tool for mesh processing has added support for saving meshes in U3D format.
So now you simply need to convert your mesh into u3d format, include the small snip of tex code generated by MeshLab into your latex document and then compile it with pdflatex.

Comment Re:How about telling us what it's called? (Score 1) 87

by ALoopingIcon (#21238999) Attached to: Recreating Cities Using Online Photos
Another 5cent;
not only the story is a bit old, but there exist free/open source tools that provide the same services, i.e. reconstruction of 3D models from your uncalibrated photos. Look at http://www.arc3d.be/ and to http://meshlab.sourceforge.net/;

The first one (arc3d) is a free-to-use service that allow people to upload photos and get back a set of 3D depth maps well as the relative vantage points from where the uploaded images were taken and the settings of the cameras.

The second one (MeshLab) is an open source tool that allow to load, inspect, process and integrate the data produced with the arc3D service, so that you can obtain a 'clean' 3D model and export it in a variety of common 3D formats.

So if someone wish to try by himself this kind of technologies, the tools are there.

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