Drawzit Angelic Pretty official site Turn Your Snapshots Into 3-D Photos So after weeks of trolling eBay and Craigslist, you've finally found it — the object of your obsession at an affordable price. In my case, it would be a 1968 Gibson Super 400 CES archtop electric guitar with a sunburst finish. Yum. But there's only one online photo, the lighting isn't good and who knows how many dings are on the back side of the guitar. If only I could spin the photo around, and twirl the guitar like I was dancing with it — then I could get a good look at it and make a sound judgement. Well, thanks to Sudipta Sinha and his colleagues at Interactive Visual Media, that's now possible. Along with his research team, Sinha helped develop a system that allows a regular digital camera to create a 360-degree, 3-D image from a collection of about 40 ordinary digital photos. “Suppose you see something interesting and you want to capture different views of an object from different angles,” Sinha said, according to a Microsoft Research news release. Happy bidding!
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