Making 3D Models from Video Clips

BoingBoing is covering an interesting piece of software called VideoTrace that allows you to easily create 3D models from the images in video clips. "The user interacts with VideoTrace by tracing the shape of the object to be modeled over one or more frames of the video. By interpreting the sketch drawn by the user in light of 3D information obtained from computer vision techniques, a small number of simple 2D interactions can be used to generate a realistic 3D model."

Oh yeah ?

[witte]

I'd like to see how it holds up against Calista Flockhart footage and not go Division By Zero.

Re:I for one...

[Anonymous Coward]

When I was in grad school, I knew a fellow who was working on similar technology. I don't think he got anywhere near as advanced as this, but he did get good enough that given 10 to 15 still images, his software could create a primitive 3D model.

Unfortunately for him, he tried to make a 3D model of his erect penis. I'm not sure if he realized it or not, but he wasn't very well hung (he's Korean). Well, at one of the presentations he had to make regarding his work, he accidentally opened up the model of his penis. He couldn't even deny that it was his, since his name was in the filename. And his supervisor, an older woman, just couldn't stop laughing. He did go on to get his degree, but I think his pride took a real beating.

What, all these comments

[SeaFox]

...and no one is going to make a porn joke?

Re:Terrible link

[wdebruij]

which is what a vast majority of readers would want

Are we on the same site? What is this "article" you talk of?