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Strata Foto 3D CX

Strata Foto 3D CX

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  • SKU: STRATAFOTO


A tool for creating professional quality 3D content from still images. It lets you use a standard digital camera to capture real-world objects as fully textured 3D models.

Strata Foto 3D CX lets you use a digital camera or any phone camera to capture real-world objects as fully textured 3D models. Its ideal for difficult to model objects like organic shapes, soft forms and hand made items. The included Photoshop plug-in makes model creation even easier. Foto 3D models are ideal for developing packaging, games, illustrations, online catalogs and more.

Key Features:

  • Sophisticated Camera Support: Strata Foto 3D CX provides automatic camera support to deal with lens distortion, focal length and image factors specific to particular camera models. Correcting these factors ensures the highest possible fidelity in model capture.
  • Automated 3D Space Orientation: A special calibration mat which can be printed out directly from Strata Foto 3D CX aids the software in generating 3D model data. This mat allows Foto 3D to calculate where the camera is in 3D space for each image. This orientation information then allows Foto 3D to automatically capture features from the images to build the 3D object.
  • Feature Pinning - Allows The Use of Any Photo Set: For projects that dont allow for use of the calibration mat Strata Foto 3D CX now provides direct control using a pin user interface. This allows you to specify the surface area details important to a high quality capture. This new feature allows the use of photograph sets from virtually any source including video frames, aerial photos and any large object that cannot be brought into a studio setting.
  • Integrate with Adobe Photoshop for Model Creation: Part of the process of generating a model from photographs involves separating the background from the object. Foto 3D provides powerful color-key tools to automate this process. In addition to these powerful tools, Adobe Photoshop (CS 4 and 5.x) is supported directly with a plug-in, allowing you to easily use Photoshops features to get the job done.
  • Interactive Model Adjustment: Once the geometry is generated, Strata Foto 3D CX gives you the ability to interactively modify the surface polygon detail (decimation). A clipping plane is also provided, allowing you to trim the base of the model to ensure a flat base where desired.
  • Import Models to Photoshop or Strata 3D CX: Models can be sent as a 3D layer to Photoshop Extended design projects, where the 3D object can be painted on, rotated, lighting adjusted, and more. Or, textured 3D models can be exported as VRML or Collada files for import into Design 3D or other 3D software.

Strata Foto 3D CX - Features

Strata Foto 3D is a powerful tool for creating professional quality 3D content from still images. A wide range of objects can be modeled including those with holes and 'difficult' organic shapes. Using a conventional camera, photos of your object on a printed mat are taken from a number of viewpoints in front of a plain backdrop. The shape of the object and its surface colour are automatically extracted from each photo and this information is used to build a high quality 3D object.

Strata Foto 3D is an efficient photo-based system for modeling real world objects. Powered by patented model generation and sophisticated texturing technology, Foto 3D allows a 3D model to be created quickly and inexpensively while requiring no technical skill or expensive hardware. Foto 3D creates models that can be displayed and used in a variety of applications.

The model can be imported into a 3D editing and rendering software such as Strata 3D CX for further enhancement and for it to be used in scenes and rendered. Finally, the model can be imported into Strata Live 3D for interactive 3D display within a website, flash file, or an Adobe Acrobat PDF document (without any plug-ins).

Foto 3D 1.6

Photoshop Integration
Foto 3D 1.6 can load images directly from Photoshop CS3 or CS4 Extended and return the real-time 3D model directly to Photoshop.

Foto 3D 1.5

Photoshop CS3, Meet Strata Foto 3D 1.5
The links between Photoshop CS3 and Strata's acclaimed 3D suite grow even stronger with the release of Strata Foto 3D 1.5. Like the other members of the suite, Strata 3D CX and Strata Live 3D, the connection goes both ways.
Strata Foto 3D includes a handy script to combine all your product shots in one Photoshop document for masking. Once you've masked the images, the Foto 3D plug-in can grab all your images in one shot, create the 3D model and pass it back to Photoshop CS3 Extended. With the full version of Foto 3D, rather than the 3D[in] version, you have access to larger textures, more detailed models, and more precise lens calibration.

All the features of Foto 3D[in] that you've seen so far are now completely within Strata Foto 3D 1.5.

Take full advantage of an integrated 3D/2D workflow
Strata Foto 3D 1.5 integrates with Photoshop CS3 in a number of key ways.

  • Create 3D Models From Images In Photoshop CS3 Extended
    Use the included script to combine your product shots into one document for easy masking. Use the Foto 3D plugin to send all the images to Foto 3D for the creation of the model and texture, then return the model to Photoshop or save it for use in Strata 3D CX 5.5 or other 3D applications.
    Take the guess-work out of creating photo-realistic 3D models.
  • Export Real-Time 3D Models Directly To Photoshop
    Strata Foto 3D is the perfect way to start any 3D job. Capture your clients' organic and hard to model objects precisely and in record time.
    Foto 3D objects work perfectly with our other Photoshop CS3 3D workflow tools, such as Live 3D to export real-time 3D PDFs and web pages, and Strata 3D for further 3D illustration, animation and photo-realistic rendering.

Strata Foto 3D CX - System Requirements

Windows

Minimum System Requirements

  • Windows XP
  • Windows 2000 with SP 4 or later
  • Pentium Compatible or better
  • 256 MB RAM
  • 330 MB free disk space
  • VGA color display with 800x600 resolution

Macintosh

Minimum System Requirements

  • Power Macintosh with Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later (10.4.x Recommended)
  • Intel Mac with Mac OS X 10.4 or later
  • 512 MB RAM
  • 75 MB free disk space
  • Monitor resolution of 1024x768