You CAN take it with you. ( With 123D Catch )

Posted by on February 20, 2013 No comments
From 123D Blog editor and contributor, Andrew Taylor:   My wife and I recently took our honeymoon to Thailand and Cambodia (which seems to be a common thing these days...), and she was extremely patient with my constant stopping to 'Capture' some of the carved sculptures and architecture in Bangkok and Siem Reap. Fortunately, I got some really good ones and processed them when we had a wi-fi connection.  I nearly lost them  all when I ran out of room on the server (I took a lot!) - the app froze and I kept getting an error message to let the processing finish, but a quick upgrade to Premium membership and some iOS file manipulation sorted it out.  (If you've run into this issue before, post below for the solution)

Buddha Feet printed at about 60% scale.

One of the better Catches came from video, oddly enough.  I took a ~20 second video and later played it full screen, hitting Cmd+Shift+3 screen captures every second or so.  Then I took those images and loaded them into the web and desktop 123D Catch app.  I think the softer focus of the video stills creates a more seamless model. Maybe someone else has had some experience with Catching from video?

 

First print of the Temple Lion

  I've managed to clean up some of the files like the Temple Lion, Buddha Feet and a carved dinosaur relief and printed them on our Objet printers (job perk!), and they're pretty awesome.  We get to relive the trip and we were kind of able to bring back some souvenirs that customs would have otherwise frowned upon. Next, I'm going to make a wooden replica of one of the Temple Lions using 123D Make and 1/4" plywood.  I think the resolution will be pretty good if the lion itself is around two feet high.  I'll do another post when it's finished.

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The Art Institute of Chicago – a Catch virtual tour!

Posted by on September 5, 2012 2 comments

Autodesk employee Cody Walker recently made a trip to The Art Institute of Chicago. He captured a good deal of it using Catch! These are really amazing - I think "The End of the Trail" might be my favorite.


So join me as we take a virtual tour of The Art Institute of Chicago! Click the links under the photos to be taken to the 123D Gallery so you can view the model in the 3D viewer. They look even better that way! He's also included more information about the pieces on the Gallery.


Asian Sculpture


The Solitude of the Soul


Kayotsarga


Daniel Webster


Celestial Beauty (Apsara)


Shiva and Uma


Crowned God Vishnu


Jephtha's Daughter


The End of the Trail


Nydia the Blind Flower Girl of Pompeii


Buddha


Guardian Figure Dvarapala


Bishamon-ten


The Lost Pleiade


The Puritan

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Favorite models in the gallery this week

Posted by on July 27, 2012 No comments

The title is a teeny bit of a fib this time since we didn't have this post last week. But it is back! Catches are becoming the most common thing in the gallery as of late and they're getting better and better.

church door by Cody Walker

church door by Cody Walker

Frogner Park Oslo Norway by Wayne Trout

Frogner Oslo Park Norway by Wayne Trout

Lion by Jeffrey Lv

Lion by Jeffrey Lv

Falla Lo Rat Penat 2012 by Jaime Almonacid

Falla Lo Rat Penat 2012 by Jaime Almonacid

Weston Super Mare - Sand Sculpture by Andrew Moore

Weston Super Mare - Sand Sculpture by Andrew Moore

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123D Catch used in producing a hologram!

Posted by on July 5, 2012 No comments
Tyrannosaurus Rex by Anthony Heath

Last week we had a truly amazing catch of a T-Rex's head show up in the gallery. I was blown away by the catch, but as it turns out there's more!

Anthony Heath, the creator of the catch, also created a hologram! He works for Zebra Imaging, a company that produces fantastic 3D holographic prints. Below is a video of his T-Rex head in action, hologram style!

T.Rex hologram from Anthony Heath on Vimeo.

This is definitely one of my favorite uses of Catch so far, right up there with "Go home view" - a short film.

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TNW Insider about the upcoming new apps

Posted by on March 26, 2012 No comments
Some key press attended the 123D event in New York last week where we showcased the upcoming apps together with our partners Objet, Makerbot, Shopbot, and Epilog.     Read the Next Web TNW Insider story about the upcoming 123D apps.    
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Coming Soon, 123D apps and eco system

Posted by on March 26, 2012 1 comment
Autodesk is announcing a connected ecosystem of apps, platforms, and communities that transforms the experience of 3D design and personal fabrication. Utilizing the power of the cloud and the crowd, the 123D family connects free 3D creation tools with content, community, and fabrication services, so anyone can create, explore, and make. 123D Catch - Take photos of people, places, and things and transform them into detailed 3D models. 123D Sculpt - Explore, shape, and paint 3D sculptures on the iPad. Share your creations with others and export them as OBJ data. 123D Make – Turn your 3D models into cut patterns and animated assembly instructions for making artful creations. 123D - 3D design software enabling personal creation and fabrication of precise and finished objects. My Corner – Your personal cloud storage for your design files, connecting 123D products and workflows. Use your data with the different 123D apps and create physical object through our fabrication services. Gallery - Publish and share your projects and access other people’s creations from the Gallery directly in the products, giving you access to an abundance of ideas of things to create. Instructables - More than 14 million individuals use Instructables every month to explore their interests in technology, crafts, home improvement, art, cooking and more. At the core of Instructables are expert authors who have created and shared more than 65,000 personal projects in the clear step-by-step Instructables format. The updated family of 123D apps is going to be available on desktop, mobile and web browser platforms soon.  Stay tuned for updates.
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3D Printed Robotic Dinosaurs!

Posted by on March 22, 2012 2 comments

Something very neat is happening at Drexel University - dinosaur bones are being scanned and then 3D printed! Dr. James Tangorra and Dr. Kenneth Lacovara have teamed up along with other researchers to get this project going.

The dinosaur bones will be printed both at normal size (for display in museums) and on a smaller scale. The smaller scale bones will be assembled into full skeletons and then turned into robots so that the researchers will be able to study how the dinosaurs really moved. The doctors hope to have a robotic limb created by the end of 2012 - a full model will take much longer.

3D printing has really revolutionized the field of paleontology - I can't wait to see where this goes.

Via drexel.edu

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Minecraft: now 3D printed!

Posted by on March 8, 2012 2 comments

Castle, fixated

Eric Haines, an Autodesk employee, has created something fantastic: Mineways. The site walks you through how to to capture your Minecraft creations and get them ready for 3D printing. If you've got a Minecraft world or structure you're super proud of, you should check it out!

Via realtimerendering.com

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Aerial 3D Capture of Autodesk Offices

Posted by on March 6, 2012 36 comments

Gonzalo Martinez of Autodesk got this fantastic 3D capture using 123D Catch and an Octo-Copter UAV to take photos and videos of the Autodesk headquarters in San Rafael, California.

We've seen 123D Catch used in many smaller applications - but this is huge! Using a UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) to capture things on such a large scale could be used in tons of ways. I can't wait to see where this goes. The possibilities are endless!

Also, here's a video of the process, which is awesome:

Via autodesk.blogs.com

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3D Scanning for Posterity

Posted by on December 2, 2011 2 comments

The Smithsonian 3D Digitization Team posted a time-lapse video of what is involved in making a 3D model of an ancient whale fossil in Chile. They appear to be using a high-end laser stylus to scan in the 3D model. This is a different modeling process than the photogrammetry used by 123D catch, but very cool nonetheless. It is great to see how this technology is put to use to create an archive of our history.

 

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