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by pedalpete 1726 days ago
This is very cool, I'm curious if you can give some details of the best use case you've seen?

We're developing hardware prototypes with our industrial designers, and I get 3D CAD designs from them. They can take the time to turn the CAD into visual design, but that takes time. Would this be a good tool for them to take the CAD, take a photo, and create demonstrations for how the product would look in the real world?

Curious if that's a realistic direction, and how else you see it being used. Nice work.

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Hello one of the co-founders here . I have a background in industrial design and am very aware of the process. So currently this is focused on the actual 2D design & development process that creatives go through when coming up with their ideas. Normally they would spend hours in photoshop trying to visualize their 2D sketches to 3D modelers who then build them but with our software we're trying to completely automate that part.

A natural evolution of this I feel like would be going from 2D sketches and synthetically reconstructing them in 3D which would accelerate the entire design process as a whole . Something we're working on now.

As of now we function in 2D ideation phase of art & design. I hope this answers some of your thoughts and questions . Thanks for the comment.

I'm very interested in converting images to 3d models. Really cool tech that feels like it's nearly there.

Have you by chance seen any of the work Facebook has been doing related to the 2d to 3d conversions?

https://github.com/facebookresearch/pifuhd

In an ideal world (for me) the output would be an .fbx file that could be uploaded directly into blender or unreal engine.

yes I have, so freaking cool ! Im thinking the same exact thing . Obj,Fbx all the standard 3D formats :D