From Image(s) to 3D Model

May 8th, 2012 Alex Posted in 3D, cad Comments Off

Software list:

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Printrbot: Your First 3D Printer (Kickstarter)

December 18th, 2011 Alex Posted in 3D, cad, diy, electronics, manufacturing Comments Off

 

Printrbot: Your First 3D Printer (Kickstarter).

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3D Web

February 7th, 2011 Alex Posted in 3D, web Comments Off

Flash

Open Source

3D Modeler

http://www.19.5degs.com/3d.php

Sandy is an intuitive and user-friendly 3D open-source library developed in Actionscript 2.0 and now Actionscript 3.0 for Adobe Flash.

http://www.flashsandy.org/blog/

PaperVision3D – Open Source realtime 3D engine for Flash

http://blog.papervision3d.org/

Tutorial: http://rozengain.com/?postid=28&replyto=2296

Away3D – Open Source realtime 3D engine for Flash

http://www.away3d.com/

Commercial

Kaon’s vSpace™ – From lightweight web 3D product tours, to stills and videos for Flash applications, extraordinary PowerPoint presentations, and now 3D PDFs, vSpace tools make interactive solutions possible for everyone.

http://www.kaon.com/software/swindex.html

Google Earth Extension for AutoCAD (publish your 3D models from AutoCAD directly into Google Earth)

http://labs.autodesk.com/utilities/google_earth_extension_beta/

Content creation programs which support Collada

https://collada.org/mediawiki/index.php/Portal:Products_directory

Where to find Collada plugins: http://www.terathon.com/wiki/index.php?title=Collada_Plugins
SketchUp (you’ll have to unzip the .kmz file to find the .dae inside)
Blender 3D
Truespace
DX studio
Photoshop CS3 Plugin
AutoCAD 2008
3D Studio Max
Maya

Swift3D (Flash only)

http://www.terathon.com/wiki/index.php?title=Collada_Plugins

tag:3d&cad&animation

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Modeling Physically Realistic Human Motion from Monocular Video Sequences

July 10th, 2010 Alex Posted in 3D, cad, pdf, video Comments Off

Xiaolin Wei and Jinxiang Chai developed a program that tracks human bodies in videos to create animated 3D models (which can then be viewed from any angle). It will be presented at Siggraph in Los Angeles.

Download a PDF or download the video.

Via New Scientist.

gymnastics motion capture

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Playing Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Under Ubuntu Linux

December 5th, 2009 Alex Posted in 3D, games, linux, ubuntu Comments Off

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install wine1.2
wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks
sh winetricks vcrun2005
sh winetricks d3dx9
wine regedit
  • under HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Wine, create key Direct3D if it doesn’t already exist
  • inside Direct3D create the following values:
    • string: DirectDrawRenderer value: opengl
    • string: OffscreenRenderingMode value: fbo
    • string: RenderTargetLockMode value: auto
    • string: UseGLSL value: readtex
    • string: VideoMemorySize value: (video card memory size in MB)
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DIY Cheap 3D Scanner

August 27th, 2009 Alex Posted in 3D, cad, diy, hardware Comments Off

There is lot’s of different cheap design for building your own 3D scanner, here are a few:

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3D printer uses plain paper (and glue) for prototyping

November 11th, 2008 Alex Posted in 3D Comments Off

Mcor’s 3D printeruses plain 8 x11 paper and glue for rapid prototyping . “The printer takes standard sheets of printer paper (A4 size) and deposits regular old PVA glue in a pattern determined by the design. Another sheet of paper is added, and a tungsten carbide blade cuts away the excess paper…”
Source: Wired & hackaday.com .

mcor matrix.jpg

mcor.3dhouse.jpg
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