When you take a picture, you know that the person or the landscape in front of you has three dimensions. But when you watch the result, it’s definitively a flat picture. Extracting 3-D information from photos is still in its infancy. Now, Stanford University computer scientists have developed the Make3d algorithm which can take any 2-D image as input and create a 3-D ‘fly around’ model of its content, giving viewers access to the scene’s depth and a range of points of view. You can test this software for free by uploading your photos to the website the researchers have built. But read more…

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Source: Roland Piquepaille