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Thursday, August 28, 2014

Carnegie Mellon Photo Editing Tool Enables Object Images To Be Manipulated in 3-D

Carnegie Mellon News - Carnegie Mellon University: Editors of photos routinely resize objects, or move them up, down or sideways, but Carnegie Mellon University researchers are adding an extra dimension to photo editing by enabling editors to turn or flip objects any way they want, even exposing surfaces not visible in the original photograph.

1 comment:

Rachel Piero said...

I feel like this kind of technology would be extremely useful for designers when giving a design presentation, especially if they're presenting to a director that's far away and the designer can't for some reason set up a skype session to show the director their model box. I also think that this kind of technology would create a platform that would allow designs to be more easily accessible to on-the-spot editing. However, I don't think that technology like this would completely replace the need for a built 3-D scale model of a set, but it could show how set pieces would move onstage. Or if you're presenting a costume design rendering and you wanted to show how that type of fabric would move on an actor, you would be able to do that. I think there could be some real possibilities for this kind of technology in the theatre world, but only if there was a way to add more things to the stock photos or if there was a way to make the photos more customizable.