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VideoTrace Lets You Trace 3D Objects From Video

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008 at 1:18 pm by Jami

AZM ally Hawk sent over this video demonstration of VideoTrace from The Australian Centr for Visual Technologies which basically allows you to create 3D geometry from video footage. You literally just trace the object you want to model and poof, instant 3D object! I imagine that the source footage must have a good amount of parallax for the trace to work properly. If you only manage to get a side view of an object, there wouldn’t be enough visual information to denote depth. Freaking awesome!

This would be perfect for quickly modeling buildings in a location shoot to be destroyed with visual effects. I can imagine lots of gaming, tv, and film applications for quick and dirty effects and modeling.

[Via The Australian Centre for Visual Technologies]

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3 Responses to “VideoTrace Lets You Trace 3D Objects From Video”

  1. AvatarKevin Bahrt
    Posted: Jul 15th, 2008 at 1:41 pm
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    This is how Skynet will learn to shoot around objects instead of through them! If robots learn to conserve their ammo how will we ever be able to outlast them?

  2. AvatarBAMikeyD
    Posted: Jul 15th, 2008 at 6:48 pm
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    That’s cool though. I wonder if it works on people at all? Like not for a full video or anything, but like a quick head goes boom kind of shot.

  3. AvatarXenos
    Posted: Jul 20th, 2008 at 4:27 pm
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    Wow. Very interesting. Looks like more work than they show, but they needed to keep the video interesting. Still, from a 360 or so pan of a an object, you can create a virtual one.

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