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3-Sweep: Extracting Editable Objects from a Single Photo, SIGGRAPH ASIA 2013

Daniel CohenOr · 2.3M views · 2013-08-13 · 5:51

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Overview

A SIGGRAPH Asia 2013 research demo of 3-Sweep, a tool for extracting editable 3D objects from a single photo using a few user strokes. It predates modern AI image tools.

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HN recalls it as a mind-blowing pre-AI demo of 2D-to-3D object extraction.

Recommended by 2 HN people across 2 months · HN mentions 2013–2024

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alfiedotwtf · 2024-10 · Strong recommendation

SIGGRAPH from over a decade ago has entered the chat... [VIDEO] It may not be AI, but this single video blew my mind back in *2013* and I find myself thinking about it often.

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cookingrobot · 2013-09 · Recommendation

I would love to see this combined with object extraction to make 3d models from the measurements. Here's an amazing demo: [VIDEO]

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leviathant · 2024-10 · Reference

>SIGGRAPH from over a decade ago has entered the chat... > > [VIDEO] A version of this was available in Photoshop for a long time, but I think the feature was deprecated and removed completely this year. I had used it for a few things here and there, but dedicated 3D tools were much better if you were working in that space.

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