As you know I am a huge http://labs.autodesk.com/technologies/photofly/ - Project Photofly freak as the technology to capture photos from a digital camera and transform them in to 3D models is a game changer. There are several solutions out there but nothing comes even close to the free technology http://labs.autodesk.com/technologies/photofly/ - Project Photofly preview hosted on http://labs.autodesk.com/ - Autodesk Labs . You can take photos using your point and shoot camera or DSLR then upload in Project Photofly and you get a 3D textured model and that can be exported to many industry formats or even a video to http://www.youtube.com - YouTube .

I was one of the people that was eligible for a phone upgrade and brought down the Internet with preordering the http://www.apple.com/iphone/ - iPhone 4S . The iPhone 4S has all new optics and the best on a mobile device. Were the all http://www.apple.com/iphone/built-in-apps/camera.html - new camera optics the main reason I was upgrading my iPhone 4 to the 4S, without question.

The photos this iPhone 4S captures are quit remarkable. I used testing it as an excuse to go fishing in the high Uinta mountains Mirror Lake. http://autodesk.blogs.com/.a/6a00d8341bfd0c53ef01539281e763970b-pi">
So naturally one of the first things I was gong to do besides talking to http://www.apple.com/iphone/features/#siri - Siri was take some photos and see how well they worked to generate 3D models in Photofly.

The results were nothing less than awesome.

I just created a quick image showing the statue I photographed with my http://www.apple.com/iphone - iPhone 4S and then automatically it generated without any manual intervention a 3D model. This took minutes and even though I am a 3D modeling ninja, there is no way I could accurately to scale this statue complete as a mesh with textures any other way as fast and easily.

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I also created an automatic video to YouTube using the automatically generate camera path option. I could have manually defined the key frames but I wanted a fully automatic from photo to 3D model.
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My team in http://labs.autodesk.com/ - Autodesk Labs is planning to update Photofly into another level of awesomeness, soon.

Now I need to get back to preparing for http://au.autodesk.com/ - Autodesk University which is only 37 days from now. Only so many late nights remain.

Cheers,
Shaan

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