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The two example outputs shown in Nomad Sculpt
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Making textured 3D digital assets using depth maps and Python 3

If you read my previous post about using Python 3 to make trimmable and sculptable textured planes…

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The end product as created by OpenSCAD
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OBJ to OpenSCAD bridges using Python 3

Blender and OpenSCAD are two of my favourite open-source 3D creation apps. Blender because it’s a swiss…

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VR360 RGB-D images to OBJ files in Python 3

Taking 360-degree photos is a lot of fun, but it’s very difficult to take stereoscopic 3D VR…

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A portrait-mode photo from the Pixel Camera app
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Stereo photos from Pixel Camera files using Python 3

Here’s something that you might not know: some Google Pixel Android phones have an option in the…

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Distances I could travel per kilogram of 3D printing
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FDM 3D printing power use and emissions

We live in a time where everything we do needs to be judged in terms of the…

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Cubemapper featured image showing a scene with lots of image boxes.
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Creating 3D photo assets for Nomad Sculpt

When it comes to rendering 3D scenes on iOS and Android devices there are very few options….

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Exploring the horopter using Python

A while back I was looking at some anaglyph photos and pondering how the two views converge…

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An rgb depth image pair of a bee on a flower
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RGBD to stereo 3D images in Python3

Obviously, 3D photography has historically mostly focussed on taking multiple photos, of different views, from different positions…

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Feature image for extracting cardboard images in python.
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Extracting 3D Cardboard images in Python 3

The height of VR frenzy may be over, but that doesn’t mean hardcore 360-degree image fans can’t…

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jpegdump.py results for a sample mpo image file
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Analysing 3D image file structures in Python 3

The Python programming language allows us to do some pretty exciting things with our 3D images, as…

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