Workflow-jpeg to 3D Relief

[jhouf (Jimmy Houf)]

Looking for some recommendations for workflow to turn a simple jpeg image into a grayscale image which can be used for 3d relief carving.

[neilferreri (Neil Ferreri Ω)]

See the thread here.

3D Photo Carving

I think you’re looking to carve a 3D relief. To do that you need a depthmap (heightmap?), not simply a grayscale image. Basically the areas of the photo that would be closer to your view need to be lighter and those that are further away need to be darker. There is no way to automatically do that with a flat photo. Many of the relief carvings you see start as a 3D model. There are cameras, even on some new phones, that can capture depth data. I don’t know too much about that. I looked into it …

[StephenCox]

Do you have Carbide Create pro, it will import PNG and JPG into the modeling tool to make 3D images. You can also make you own from scratch.

$125 ish per year.

I have some youtube videos on how it works. Channel is Stephen k cox.

You can see if this is what your looking for.

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

The problem is, very few images have a direct mapping between dark/light and height/depth — if you have such an image, it will make a model as expected — if you don’t, you will be better served by:

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: https://cutrocket.com/halftonehelp.php

If you have a suitable pixel image, then w/ a Pro license just use:

Import Image (second icon from the left)