Autodesk Labs Project Photofly 2.0 Shooting Guidelines

Project Photofly is a cloud-based service that converts 2D photographs to 3D computer models. It is available as a free technology preview on Autodesk Labs. This video demonstrates how to take a series of photographs with a standard digital camera to maximize the results.

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[ZezimaXL]

@IanLeoTV considering most of there products are a few thousand dollars, I'd say no :\

[Autodesk]

The technology preview is indeed free. Try it.

[musclebear2b]

Wouldn't it be great if those of us who use the software went out and made photo scenes of the worlds major tourist attractions and places of interest, and then the creators of the app collated the info (obviously with some compression) and released a smart phone app to rival google earth in that users could explore the buildings?

Also, I have a Nintendo 3DS - maybe a conversion could be added so that I could view my models in 3D on that too?

[Autodesk]

Museums are definitely interested in this technology to catalog what they have inside. The exhibits change often.

[TheFlashstickman]

How come I can't download this program????!! I really really want it. I've been searching all over trying to find a program that allows me to take pics of an object and then make it 3d and this is the one ! :S

[Scott Sheppard]

Yes. Project Photofly is now 123D Catch.

[Serge V. Richard]

PhotoFly is now called 123D Catch Correct? 123dapp(dot)com/catch

[tonycstech]

No wonder, it sucks.

Having your model be generated online on your machines limits the "edit ability" of final results.

I want to to able to tweak and adjust, instead of some online automated computer do it all for me.

After all, computers only as smart as people who program then. If that wasn't true, then programs would not have Version's 1.0, 1.2 etc

[keavoncp]

Great technology, but its' CONSTANTLY crashing on my computer. I would like to call attention to this thread: forums.autodesk [dot] com/t5/Project-Photofly/2-1-cr­ashes-every-time/td-p/3132428

I am virtually unable to do run it at all on my computer. I successfully got one or two models to work after about 20 tries each, and no luck since then. Fixing that bug quickly would be super-duper awesome! Thanks!

[keavoncp]

ATI 6950 GPU, i7-2600-K, &16 GB of memory isn't good enough? I'd be happy to wait a few minutes to process it even if that were so. The only reason I'm saying this is because my internet is so slow that it takes 20 minutes to upload about 30 pictures. And the program also crashes a lot when uploading, so it seems that it would be easier to just compute it myself, even if it takes a little while to compute. Just an idea: having the cloud option, and the self compute option would rock!

[keavoncp]

Why do we have to upload the pictures to the cloud servers? Why can't we just compute it on our own computers?