3d carving of a photograph

[WillAdams (William Adams (Carbide 3D))]

There are a couple of possible approaches:

• eschew 3D and simply cut a halftone:

Halftone generator on Cutrocket

This was announced/demoed in a limited way a while back — had occasion to reference it in a support ticket recently, so here’s the text from that: We have a halftone generator which will accept black and white images, so you will need to convert any image into a black and white picture. That is the only type of picture the generator will accept. Help file: Halftone Generator - Help

• eschew 3D, re-draw, and cut as a V carving

• re-draw, then use the drawn geometry as the basis for a 3D model

• manually sculpt a 3D model using the the photograph as a guide

• use a Large Language Model (what folks are passing off as “A.I.”) to create a height/depth map or 3D model — while not a photo, here was a recent discussion of doing this sort of thing from a pixel image:

File conversion help

I have a photo of a clock. How do I convert the image to an SVG…? and then convert the SVG to make it 3D. I want to convert from a photo… to an SVG then to carve a clock face in 3D.

It might be that there are specialty models for this sort of thing, but that’s not something which I have looked into.