Photosynth to 3D

[imightbewrong]

Hey.

Someone should try this with a set of good photos of a car. If done right with appropriate photos it might turn out really nice.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuHJUS2olyc

[mike]

absolutely amazing!!

we need bar555 to put all his photo in this and make 3D camparisons of all the cars of the '10 season........

[Giblet]

Good idea... I completely forgot about photosynth, but this is a really good application of it.

[bar555]

absolutely amazing!!

we need bar555 to put all his photo in this and make 3D camparisons of all the cars of the '10 season........

Sorry but i can’t , i do not say i do not want to , but i do not have the time to complete the task ( especially now that i have started a blog of my own ) . Anyway , i can at least mail high-res pictures of car parts to anyone who will try this . Just give me a PM .

I may in the future try this program if i acquire it first of course as it sounds very promising.

[Giblet]

absolutely amazing!!

we need bar555 to put all his photo in this and make 3D camparisons of all the cars of the '10 season........

Sorry but i can’t , i do not say i do not want to , but i do not have the time to complete the task ( especially now that i have started a blog of my own ) . Anyway , i can at least mail high-res pictures of car parts to anyone who will try this . Just give me a PM .

I may in the future try this program if i acquire it first of course as it sounds very promising.

I got some time, and a new screaming fast computer begging to be used. Ill send you a pm.

[Jersey Tom]

I think you'd need a LOT of photos of a car from various angles to really get something that isn't just a blob.. we'll have to see.

[nacho]

I don't think I have to remember anyone but the pictures have to be the same development spec. I wonder how confused the program will get if the wheels have moved or the wheels have different compounds (stripe or no stripe).

[Carlos]

I don't think I have to remember anyone but the pictures have to be the same development spec..

Ahh...yes; same development spec ...would be the same graphics file format. Yes?

You can use this freeware to 'sync-convert ' 400 different graphic file types.

http://www.xnview.com/en/nconvert.html


No, I don't have time to do it either, I'm working with an artist, doing CG illustrations and collages which he uses as composition studies for large scale oil and acyrlic paintings, we will probably do a series of Formula 1 cars and drivers, some other things too, more on that later in the year.

I'm thinking of buying a standalone program to convert 2D photos to 3D - the same thing that Photosynth does, on a dual CPU quad4/16GB workstation, very pricy kit, the program alone is about 3.5K-USD - just researching it over the next while.

Photosyth is an online service - uploading a series of pictures. Download the console program which uploads to photosynth. I think it was a project of Microsoft Research and Development Labs. Actually anyone who has a series of photos, lets say a F1 car, can use the service. The problem is getting together an array of photos. Watch the video on this MS link to see what I mean, it's an exponential version of standing in one spot and taking pictures for a panorama program to stitch together, except it reads/synthzises the 'bumpmaps' and calculates a 3D image. Probalby takes a very powerful computer, way beyond a consumer unit like you and I have; but not a supercomputer. That's how I understand the process.
Homepage
http://photosynth.net/default.aspx

[nacho]

I meant the pictures of the car need to be almost from the same weekend, otherwise the small updates will cause a bit of a mess.

[Giblet]

Carlos,

Are there current dual CPU boards you can get for the i7's? When I was shopping for my new pc, I looked into dual CPU boards, and it appeared that only Intel offered one, called the "skull trail", but it was not for the i7's, and was basically a bag of hurt from what I read. Bragging rights for gamers.

AFAIK, a few months ago at least, a Mac Pro was the only dual cpu machine.

The i9 (I think thats the designation) is a 6 core cpu, hyperthreaded to '12' threads.

Maybe I just need to do some up to date research. 3 months is a infinity in the PC world.

EDIT: There has been an dual i7 mobo shown at cebit, not in production yet.

[Giblet]

I meant the pictures of the car need to be almost from the same weekend, otherwise the small updates will cause a bit of a mess.

Thats why we are using the ones from the test, the car has had very little if any change so far.

[Carlos]

Giblet

The 2 CPU boards are custom workstations with the ADM Opteron 8000 series Shanghi CPU's from HPC Systems. Their workstations are definitely two bags of hurt. Definitely a business machine.

I think you 's got as good and fast as it gets for Intel. Probably the only dual CPU motherboards for Intel are for the Xeon, those are so old that your i7 machine is probably faster.

[Giblet]

Giblet

The 2 CPU boards are custom workstations with the ADM Opteron 8000 series Shanghi CPU's from HPC Systems. Their workstations are definitely two bags of hurt. Definitely a business machine.

I think you 's got as good and fast as it gets for Intel. Probably the only dual CPU motherboards for Intel are for the Xeon, those are so old that your i7 machine is probably faster.

i am able to OC it on the stock cooler, stock case, everytihng stock, from 2.6x4 to 3.2x4.

The only problem there is the fan is running full speed all the time, so instead of taxing it, I just live with it at around 2.8

But now I need a top end ATI card with Eyefinity ("need" heheh)so I can run the 3 monitor setup for iRacing at a decent frame rate.

For 5760x1080 (as Eyefinity sees it as one res) it needs one hell of a vid card, and it needs Displayport for at least two screens.

[mike]

why not just use slow motion videos and make it in to a series of photos and then photosynth it in to 3D provided the parts doesnt fall off and it doesnt vibrate all that much

[Giblet]

why not just use slow motion videos and make it in to a series of photos and then photosynth it in to 3D provided the parts doesnt fall off and it doesnt vibrate all that much

Another excellent idea. I'll scrub RU for some testing vids of the F10 as well. I'll post my progress as it comes along.

My kodak camera can take a 720p .mov and extract the frames out of it pretty easily, so I should be able to do it with a typical video editor.

One problem I see from a moving car is the front wheels being at varying angles. I figure the shots would have to be from straightaways.