A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Alex Trost at Frontend Horse: One style I’ve been loving is the 3D work that Ricardo Oliva Alonso creates on CodePen. It’s a style that looks like it was drawn in Adobe Illustrator or modeled with Three.js. Ricardo will often find a piece on Dribbble and recreate it on CodePen, styling it entirely with HTML …
Ow, this is nice. And apparently it’s called “Photogrammetry”. 💭 Reminds me of Microsoft’s Photosynth (RIP)
💡 Sparked by the 3D Ken Burns Effect from a Single Image post, I was reminded of a few other 3D photo things … About a year ago, Facebook announced a feature named “3D Photos”, a way to show photos taken with Apple’s “Portrait Mode” (or any other device that does the same) interactively: Whether …
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Nice research by Simon Niklaus, Long Mai, Jimei Yang and Feng Liu: In this paper, we introduce a framework that synthesizes the 3D Ken Burns effect from a single image, supporting both a fully automatic mode and an interactive mode with the user controlling the camera. Our framework first leverages a depth prediction pipeline, which …
One of the most famous wrecks to dive on is that of the SS Thistlegorm, a British merchant steam ship that was sunk by German bombers on 6 October 1941 near Ras Muhamad (Red Sea, Egypt). The University of Nottingham, Ain Shams (Cairo) and Alexandria University have joined forces to create a 3D model of …
In the past I’ve seen some demos like this one that use JavaScript/math to calculate the hover direction upon mouseenter. Detecting the direction is also possible sans JavaScript, by adding triangular hitareas to a box/link in combination with the CSS General Sibling Selector (viz. ~) to rotate the content. Internally it looks like this: Note …
Maybe you are familiar with those ticket booking systems where, at some point during the purchase flow, you have to choose a seat. This is usually done when selling tickets for games, movies, flights or concerts. Wouldn’t it be cool to have some kind of “realistic” preview of the seat, i.e. see the stage or …