Stanford site advances science of turning 2-D images into 3-D models

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A three-dimensional fly around image above was created from a two-dimensional image using an algorithm developed by Stanford computer scientists. Credit: Ashutosh Saxena
A three-dimensional 'fly around' image, above, was created from a two-dimensional image using an algorithm developed by Stanford computer scientists. Credit: Ashutosh Saxena

An artist might spend weeks fretting over questions of depth, scale and perspective in a landscape painting, but once it is done, what's left is a two-dimensional image with a fixed point of view. But the Make3d algorithm, developed by Stanford computer scientists, can take any two-dimensional image and create a three-dimensional "fly around" model of its content, giving viewers access to the scene's depth and a range of points of view.


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