2D to 3D

October 24, 2006 5:12 PM

Finding The Third Dimension. A research project at Carnegie Mellon University that attempts to extract the third dimension from one single photograph. (YouTube video, via)
posted by zardoz (13 comments total)

Previously. But this video is longer and the additional examples are cool to see.
posted by yeti at 5:22 PM on October 24, 2006

Actual YouTube page with 2,000+ comments and several other cool videos from the same user.
posted by VulcanMike at 5:24 PM on October 24, 2006

oops. missed the previous post.
posted by zardoz at 5:37 PM on October 24, 2006

should something have come out of my screen?
posted by dontoine at 6:13 PM on October 24, 2006

That video is crazy awesome, in a brilliantly hallucinatory kinda way. Better quality images and some kind of automagic stiching will pretty much make this the coolest thing ever.
posted by MetaMonkey at 6:15 PM on October 24, 2006

s/stitching
posted by MetaMonkey at 6:19 PM on October 24, 2006

This video in French was discussed on fark recently, similar tech, with some cool effects added at around 4:40.
posted by bobo123 at 7:12 PM on October 24, 2006

[this is good]
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 8:12 PM on October 24, 2006

The street with buildings on each side is downright amazing.

Agreeing with MetaMonkey... some super-hi res images and automagic stiching, we could have Google Earth with Upload-Your-Block capability.
posted by ®@ at 8:13 PM on October 24, 2006

This is amazing. Imagine what it could do with panoramas.
posted by knave at 8:18 PM on October 24, 2006

Here's the project web site, you can actually download an executable. Not sure if source is available.
posted by knave at 8:25 PM on October 24, 2006

...completely automatically
posted by jjg at 9:17 PM on October 24, 2006

That's crazy rad.
posted by Ogre Lawless at 3:16 PM on October 25, 2006