Hi, the problem with a actual photography is, it will not look good (realistic) if you just convert it into gray scale, interpret this as a height field and turn this into a relief using your mill.
You would need a real high field, representing the 3D surfaces in the scene, than compress this in a suitable way down to the depth of a bas-relief and mill this. This process is one of the research fields I'm working on, main goal is to simplify or automate the processes of creating bas-reliefs as illustrations for blind people. Things would be easy if you had several photos showing the same scene, but take from different points. In this case you could you software like Agisoft's PhotoScan [1] to reconstruct the actual 3D surfaces and a mesh modeller to compress the depth later. In case you could provide the image I'd be happy to load them into PhotoScan an see if I can get a usable result. See you Flo [1] http://www.agisoft.ru/products/photoscan/standard/ PS: PhotScan is relay cool and super cheep, 180 USD and only 60 for educational use. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. This 200-page book is written by three acclaimed leaders in the field. The early access version is available now. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/neotech_d2d_may _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
