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From: cameron@kirk.nmg.bu.oz (Cameron Stevenson)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Modelling from raster images
Keywords: raster
Message-ID: <2636@kirk.nmg.bu.oz>
Date: 16 Nov 90 06:18:12 GMT
Organization: Network Management Group, Bond University, Australia
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An idea came to mind today (it doesn't happen very often!)....

Has anybody seen/heard of a system which could build/read/collect dimensional
information from raster images. I appreciate a scale would have to be used as
a starting point (a known dimension in the image), but from here it should be
possible to calculate other dimensions (in 3D).

Similar systems exist for digitizing photographs, so why not scanned images
(either still or video). Just a thought.

Anybody know anything about this area at all.

Thanks in advance,

Cameron Stephenson                     Ph. +61 75 951220
Bond University
Gold Coast    Australia