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Everything so far, we’ve been taking 2D images and putting them in 3D, but we’ve kind of been keeping them as those flat images in some way. They’re not kind of natively 3D.
If you look at this, you can see that this is a bit different. This is that same webcam placeholder image, but you can see that this is somehow more in 3D. We turn the pixels into dots.
If I go to dot Cloud, which is what this new element is called, you can see I can change those dot sizes from something really small up and up. But the real thing here is that we can play with a displacement slider.
The way this is working at the moment, it’s taking the displacement from the brightness of each pixel. You can imagine there are ways that we’re gonna take this in the future. But yeah, let’s just explore how we can use this artistically for a moment.
You’ve seen this with the webcam placeholder image. But I commute in, I mean, I work remotely but I commute into the office every now and then. So I have these kind of early morning, late night trains and I look like looking out the train window. And so here you can see this is just that sideways, scrolling out of the train window, passing through stations. But look, you know, we can really ramp up the displacement and you can start to be in it.
Also if we just bring that back, you can see that we’ve kind of got all these black pixels here that we’ve still got this kind of rectangular frame in the space, which is kind of somehow, yeah, we, we, we want these pixels just to be, we don’t want them in that black frame. This would be a good time for a luminance key, a luma key. So I need to add that to the source.
Here’s the visual source. I’ve got a luma key on it and I’m going to turn up that threshold for keying out. It’s going to take out anything that’s below almost black. It’s gonna take out total black.
Now all of a sudden we can see that we’re kind of creating abstract 3D art, truly 3D in that 3D space.…continued in next post
