Re: OT: 2D to 3D Tools -- What Happened to Canoma?

2007-01-02 Thread Chipp Walters
Sivakatirswami, I own a copy of Canoma. It was pretty hard to use, and worked on only the most basic of images-- nothing like what you are trying to do. There are other prodcts out there which work similarly, and are reasonably priced. Frankly, I always thought of it as an unfinsihed product,

Re: OT: 2D to 3D Tools -- What Happened to Canoma?

2007-01-02 Thread Chipp Walters
Here are a few links I found: Photomodeler: http://www.photomodeler.com/ Photo3D: http://www.photo3d.com/eindex.html 3DSOM Pro: http://www.3dsom.com/download/buy.html RealViz ImageModeler: http://www.realviz.com/3D_modeling_software.htm You may note, all of these (and Canoma) work with

Re: OT: 2D to 3D Tools -- What Happened to Canoma?

2007-01-02 Thread Geoff Canyon
You might take a look here: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dhoiem/projects/popup/index.html It's software by a research team that automatically generates a 3D image from a 2D source. As far as I know, it only works with outside scenes. It works by deciding where the horizon is, and figuring out

OT: 2D to 3D Tools -- What Happened to Canoma?

2006-12-31 Thread Sivakatirswami
I was naive enough to think that some 3D programs would just import jpegs and voila! your giant image library become content resource for games But, not so... I then Googled 2d to 3d and found some stuff, most fascinating was Canoma, which apparently was purchased by Adobe, but a search at

Re: OT: 2D to 3D Tools -- What Happened to Canoma?

2006-12-31 Thread Sivakatirswami
Sivakatirswami wrote: I was naive enough to think that some 3D programs would just import jpegs and voila! your giant image library become content resource for games But, not so... I then Googled 2d to 3d and found some stuff, most fascinating was Canoma, which apparently was purchased by