I was wondering if there's any way to take a .jpg, possibly scanned in
using a 30-bit scanner, and "reverse engineer" it into a set of objects
readable by POV-Ray or Moray?  This would be really cool for landscapes
and other stuff..

-mike

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Ken Penner (kpe### [at] worldnetattnet) wrote:
: I was wondering if there's any way to take a .jpg, possibly scanned in
: using a 30-bit scanner, and "reverse engineer" it into a set of objects
: readable by POV-Ray or Moray?  This would be really cool for landscapes
: and other stuff..

  When you convert a 3D scene to a 2D-projection, you always loose a lot
of data. You can't convert it backwards. You can of course guess what was
the original 3D-data, but you can never get exactly the original (because
the data is lost). If you have more projections of the same image, you can
make better guesses (for example if you have front, top and side projections
of the object, you can guess much better than if you have only one projection,
but the projections are not unique or unambiguous, though).

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