I don’t want to present this as a MUST HAVE NOW request, but maybe when the tech advances more….
For those who may have dabbled with some of Affinity’s products (Designer, Photo, Publisher), there is a fly-out feature that fetches stock photos from WITHIN the app:
Agree to PixaBay’s terms of service, add some keywords and voilá, a bunch of images to help start your project!
What if Nomad had something similar? This video piqued my interest……
Even after watching it, I didn’t expect anything close to perfection, but can it at least help generate a basemesh?
After applying for a free account, the web-based interface is fed your image. In a few minutes, it spits out a preview. Definitely rough-looking based on the single image supplied. The 4 guesses of different angles it generated also left a lot to be desired….
Up top, there’s a button to have their system refine the mesh. Again, for a free account, I was surprised it let me expend more resources. After some 2+ hours, the result was ready:
Like the preview, this refined version is rotatable directly on the webpage itself. I was even surprised AI pulled out some nose profile based off a flat 2D image
I know from playing around with many cheap photogrammetry scans, much of that “detail” is merely the UV texture map. Let’s download it as an OBJ and open it up in Nomad:
This is pretty much what I expected… which from a sculpting standpoint, might not be too shabby as a starting basemesh!
So perhaps in a few years, the ADD PRIMITIVES section of Nomad might see an A.I. Primitives?
