FotoWoosh your family album

While researching another story, I came across an item worthy of it’s own quick post. FotoWoosh is in an application that transforms your 2D photographs into relatively believable 3D models. It cannot let you see around corners, it can only work from the information that is actually there but, at least with their sample images, is able to do quite a lot with the 2D data that is seen. The software is in Alpha release, and you can sign up to be notified of the Beta release. It basically constructs a 3D model with a texture map, but the modeling/mapping is automated— the software apparently makes some intuitive calculations about the geometry of the environment in the photo, and then maps the image information onto it, so you can make slight perspective tilts on X, Y, and Z axis, within limited constraints, and zoom in, dependent upon the resolution of your starting image. It will be fascinated to see how well this does in real-world application. Kind of a one-trick-ponny gimmick, but a fun one.