Fotowoosh will turn any picture into a 3d image


	Fotowoosh will turn any picture into a 3d image

granger

4-21-2007 9:54 PM

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technology, photo, 3d, cmu, carnegie mellon

granger says:

Derek Hoiem, Robotics

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4-22-2007 10:01 AM

The REAL Napster

I was actually making them into 3D movable, rotatable,zoomable objects back in 1999
I hate being ahead of the world sometimes.

http://web.archive.org/web/20000613151858/http://sellit3d.com/

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