Turn your Webcam into a 3D Scanner
Sunday, November 29 2009 - xna, art-and-design
I came across this interesting article on BlenderNation where there is information about a project that will allow you to construct a 3D Model from your Webcams video. The Video shows an example where they take a Model of a house and slowly turn it around in front of the Web Cam. In doing this the 3D Model gets slowly constructed. Having this type of tech would make it easier to take the step from your sample art straight into your XNA game.
Cambridge University Qi Pan is developing software that will reconstruct textured 3D models from webcam video. A Linux and later a Windows downloadable demo should be available in a couple of months. The results are already quite amazing – check out the video inside.
Here is the link to the BlenderNation Article, As well as some Supporting Articles.
