Both Pexels and Pixabay have great resources and photos that are great quality and CC0.

Try adhering to the workflow in the sense of not overcomplicating geometry, and try simplifying steps, to speed up production (Remember, this workflow is not about a final polished result, but rather quick assets for testing/experimenting) Mesh.saveAsSTL(sketchPath('scribble'+(System.currentTimeMillis()/1000)+'.You will be using the rapid asset production workflow from my class to make your own insect or creature of choice. Mesh = (TriangleMesh)puteSurfaceMesh(mesh, 0.5) Volume=new VolumetricSpaceArray(new Vec3D(50, 50, 5), img.width, img.height, 4) // Change the Z axes value to modify the amount of extrusionįloat val = brightness(img.pixels) / 255.f Img.filter(BLUR, 2) // Blurring a bit the image avoids strange results We have already talked about these topics in the Painting noise with ToxicLibs Volumetric brush in Processing tutorial. We will use ToxicLibs Volume utils for this. The idea is to use a voxel-space and to use the brightness values of the image as SDF values for the voxels. In this second approach we will use Processing and ToxicLibs instead. I also recommend to change the origin of the plane to its bottom left corner and to move it at the origin of the axes, it will be easier to deal with it.Īs last touch, you can add a Subdivision Surface modifier to smooth even further you result.ĢD image to 3D with Processing and ToxicLibs – 1

Try to change the Extension to clip and play with the Crop minimum and Crop maximum parameters. You will probably have to adjust the strength and, most likely, you will have to go back to the the Texture panel and adjust the Image Mapping settings, so that the image fits the plane. Then, in the Texture panel, you import the image that you want to convert to 3D.įinally, you need to apply to your plane a Displace modifier using as a texture the one that you have just created. The more subdivisions you do, the better, but beware not to crash your computer. We start by creating a plane and by subdividing it many times.

This first technique is quite known and standard.

What I will show is meant for pure raster images, not ones that have previously been converted to vector, like is shown here, for example. I will use as an example this image taken from here, TSZ Digital Art. These techniques can be useful to generate an STL file that we can later use for 3D printing or CNC milling. We will use Blender for the first and Processing with ToxicLibs for the second and third. In this tutorial we will see three tricks to convert a 2D image to 3D.

Blender 2d image to 3d model