14 DAY TRIAL // Have you ever taken a photograph and while you were satisfied with most of it, you wished some of the objects had been arranged in a different manner?
Now a group of university researchers have come up with a three-dimensional photo editing tool that allows you to do the unimaginable.
It should provide you with full editing access to your shots and when I say full access I don’t mean light tweaking or something similar.
The tool will give photographers the chance to flip or animate objects in two-dimensional photographs. In a full paper, the students at the Carnegie Mellon University involved in the project, explain the 3D manipulation is possible by aligning stock 3D models to the geometry of an object depicted in a photo and then adding the right colors, textures and lighting.
If in the real world, we’re used to interacting with the objects by grabbing them, feeling them and so on, the new tool will be able to confer the same freedom within the photographic landscape.
The goal here is to be able to manipulate “what is known” about the scene depicted in the photograph.
The tool has been developed to work in concert with digital images, but according to the team, the system can be extended to manipulate historical photographs too.
