3-Sweep: Extracting Editable Objects from a Single Photo, SIGGRAPH ASIA 2013 on HackerTube: recommended by 2 Hacker News commenters across 2 separate months, 2013–2024.
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A SIGGRAPH Asia 2013 research demo of 3-Sweep, a tool for extracting editable 3D objects from a single photo using a few user strokes. It predates modern AI image tools.
HN recalls it as a mind-blowing pre-AI demo of 2D-to-3D object extraction.
“this single video blew my mind back in *2013* and I find myself thinking about it often.”
5 Hacker News comments link this video. Each one links back to its thread.
SIGGRAPH from over a decade ago has entered the chat... ▶ this video It may not be AI, but this single video blew my mind back in *2013* and I find myself thinking about it often.
in “Adobe's new image rotation tool is one of the most impressive AI tools seen” · View on HN
I would love to see this combined with object extraction to make 3d models from the measurements. Here's an amazing demo: ▶ this video
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>SIGGRAPH from over a decade ago has entered the chat... > > ▶ this video A version of this was available in Photoshop for a long time, but I think the feature was deprecated and removed completely this year. I had used it for a few things here and there, but dedicated 3D tools were much better if you were working in that space.
in “Adobe's new image rotation tool is one of the most impressive AI tools seen” · View on HN
That is correct. Sometime in the future, consumers will have software that can turn 2D images into simulated 3D [0]. It's still in dev mode right now, though. [0] ▶ this video
in “Virtual Forest” · View on HN
Lots of interesting research being done on this, keep an eye out for stuff from SIGGRAPH later this month. Here's an example from SIGGRAPH Asia: ▶ this video .
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