Ken Penner <kpe### [at] worldnetattnet> wrote:
: Does anyone know of a way to take a normal JPG, possibly scanned in
: using a 30-bit scanner, and "reverse engineer" it into a set of objects
: readable by POV or Moray?  I just ordered Photoshop and Illustrator..
: would Photoshop do something like this?

  That's completely impossible.
  When you project from 3D to 2D, you loose information.
  - There is information in the 3D space which ends up hidden in the 2D
    projection, and you have no way to get that information back, apart
    from guessing (artifficial intelligence?) (and even human guessing is
    far from perfect).
  - The projection is not unambiguous: Completely different 3D-objects may
    produce identical 2D-projections. You have no way to tell which one of
    those objects was the original 3D-object.
  - The projection is not unambiguous even if you have several projections
    of the same 3D-object (at least not always). Of course several projections
    make guessing easier.
  - You don't even have depth information. There may be two pixels in the image
    with identical colors, but one of them may be extremely near to the camera
    and the other at 1 billion kilometers. You have no way to know that (apart
    from guessing).

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