[x3d-public] Fwd: Meshes as images and image generation

[John Carlson]

Found this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WS-cnyTd9Dw

On Fri, Sep 23, 2022 at 12:26 PM Joseph D Williams <joedwil at earthlink.net>
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>    - Indeed, can mesh animation be represented as an image or images?
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> Yes, we have significant practical proofs of that happening in anywhere
> everywhere realtime anytime yourtime, all the time, relatively. The details
> are not sketchy, the capture of any instant may be thought of as a
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> Creating and animating a mesh can be simple, just move the mesh points and
> look at the the 2D on your screen. Once yo have this then probly the best
> way to hide how you did it would be to covert to a 2D, like make a video.
> That wil make it fard for anyone to figure out much about how the thing was
> actually created except that it must have been a lot of work.
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> *From: *John Carlson <yottzumm at gmail.com>
> *Sent: *Thursday, September 22, 2022 8:51 AM
> *To: *X3D Graphics public mailing list <x3d-public at web3d.org>
> *Subject: *[x3d-public] Fwd: Meshes as images and image generation
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> For starters, can STL be converted to image(s) and recovered?
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> The idea would be to generate (mesh) images, then translate them to STL.
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> I realize several pictures can be translated to 3D meshes, and one can
> render the meshes.   I am more concerned about the fidelity of the geometry.
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> The idea would be to use the image(s) as an alternate encoding of the
> STL.  One probably couldn’t view the image and 3D model and recognize them
> as each other.  The images would encode the tuples of the STL at a minimum.
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> Should we discuss adding time as a coordinate to normals and vertices in
> STL for animation?  4D printing?
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> John
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> From: *John Carlson* <yottzumm at gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, Sep 22, 2022 at 9:43 AM
> Subject: Re: Meshes as images and image generation
> To: X3D Graphics public mailing list <x3d-public at web3d.org>
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> Indeed, can mesh animation be represented as an image or images?
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> On Thu, Sep 22, 2022 at 9:39 AM John Carlson <yottzumm at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I read recently on this list i think that meshes can be represented in an
> “image” format.   I am wondering if the current crop of image generation
> tools, like DALL-E/2, imagen, parti, MidJourney, and stable diffusion could
> be used to generate meshes in that image format.
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> Thanks!
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