"This Mok3 thing could be bigger than SketchUp, especially for interior designers and architects," Geoffrey Moore Langdon tells me.
"It is like a PhotoShop that allows you to push-pull the images into correct 3D with the ease of SketchUp. Thus from a single photograph, you quickly create a 3D model:
-- with the photograph texture-mapped appropriately.
-- with the ability to view the model at any time in wireframe.
-- show shadows from new lights added to the 3D model of a photorealistic hotel lobby just created 90 seconds earlier.
-- and export out to other CADD programs.
"When you have multiple photographs, the results are all the more impressive, accurate, and you are able to flow from one room space to another dynamically.
"The part you don'tT see everyday is where they take a painting by Paul Gaugain, and then show you the rest of the space (the part that Gaugain never painted). And show you (in 3D virtual reality) how ambiguous art, Escher, can be interpreted in two different 3D ways.
"Apparently Mok is either the first or last name of the primary genius who came up with the technology as part of his MIT doctoral thesis."
You can download several movies that show the result of Mok3'ing photos from their gallery. Those who attended the SolidWorks 2003 event in Cambridge will recognize the lobby of the Royal Sonesta Hotel.
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