<div><div dir="auto">Did I call this, or what? <div><a href="https://gizmodo.com/nvidia-taught-an-ai-to-instantly-generate-fully-texture-1840323132">https://gizmodo.com/nvidia-taught-an-ai-to-instantly-generate-fully-texture-1840323132</a></div></div></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Dec 4, 2019 at 4:30 PM John Carlson <<a href="mailto:yottzumm@gmail.com">yottzumm@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Does anyone want to help create coloring books of dinosaurs in VRML/X3D/VR/AR/XR? I'm guessing we can do something like take dinosaur 3D models from popular movies and reduce them to B&W through edge detection and enhancement. Or just use these with permission: <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Jurassic_World_Adult_Coloring_Book/4dGMDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover" target="_blank">https://www.google.com/books/edition/Jurassic_World_Adult_Coloring_Book/4dGMDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover</a> Once we have them colored, we project them back into 3D and have them wander around the scene, play tag, hide and seek, etc.</div><div><br></div><div>Just what a little web search brings up:</div><div><br></div><div>Imagineering: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1085105428192466" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1085105428192466</a></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://castle-engine.io/vrml_engine_doc/output/xsl/html-nochunks/vrml_engine.html#idm1231" target="_blank">https://castle-engine.io/vrml_engine_doc/output/xsl/html-nochunks/vrml_engine.html#idm1231</a> <br></div><div><br></div><div>I guess I'm 5 years behind, at least, or more like 40. I don't see any commercial versions, but I haven't done extensive searches.</div><div><br></div><div>I think it would be a lot of fun for kids to have their own herd.</div><div><br></div><div>What might be the pain points in X3D that would need to be developed for X3Dv4.1? I have HAnim (I've heard you Joe) as one.</div><div><br></div><div>One thing I've done a bit of work on is using a movie texture on a sphere. I think the coloring tool would require something similar, but perhaps it would work well with just a HTML5 canvas capture.</div><div><br></div><div>Better web searching than mine would be wonderful. It would be a lot easier to find something than develop it.</div></div><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>John Carlson</div></div>
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