Provide snaps and 3-Dimensional object is ready

Autodesk, Software Company is going to launch freeware named Photofly which can generate 3D model. Software is available for Windows platform, uploads photo to cloud server and process the photo and parameters for generating 3D model out of it.

This technology works on density of the object like laser scanner works. Although this technology won’t cost you thousands of bucks as it needs are just 35-40 photos with required angles. Say for example, if we want to make a 3D model of a person you need to capture snaps of the head and shoulders of that person and just give it to Cloud server to process it into 3D model. You can print this model with the help of 3D printers which is not so costly these days and you can have print-out of 3D models in forms of ceramics, plastics and metals.

Autodesk will be the first company to launch such an application and on other hand Microsoft Researchers are coming up with substitute product of Photofly that is ‘PhotoSynth’. Addition to that it will be application by which you facilitate your cell phone to convert its photo into 3D models says Mathews.

It might interest you to take a hawk eye view about working of this technology. The Application ‘Photofly’ goes through many processes like identifying the position of camera and triangulating it based on different views and certain distinctive features. Further going too sharp, it triangulates the view more efficiently on second round.

Yuan-Fang Wang, a computer scientist at the University of California, said that “Technology has become very robust and simple to place this in front of consumers but there are some limitations which may be concerns for the same”.  “The efficiency of the technology will be tested hard when snaps will be taken in dark light or too flashy environment”, he added. As a major implementation of this technology, paleontologist named Louise Leakey in Kenya have captured early human bones with accurate measurements of specimen, such as spacing and sizing of teeth. On other hand as major usage we can see Photofly helping Engineers in retrofitting the building and saving their time, efforts and resources. They can with the help of Photofly, quickly figure out what need to be done to make building more eco-friendly.