Export Kinect depth map to Blender

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killkrt

Export Kinect depth map to Blender

in General Discussion • Other • 5 months ago

Hi!

I would like to use Processing and Kinect to film the depth map/points cloud of a scene and then import to Blender as an animation.

I mean my idea is to use Kinect as a 3D camera, take a scene (of few minutes) and then import the points cloud data in Blender and then render as I prefer.

Do you know if a sketch like that exists?

Thank you.

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amnon.owed

Re: Export Kinect depth map to Blender

5 months ago

You have to research what kind of input is right for Blender.

The easiest would be a depth image. Otherwise you export the actual z data.

knutl

Re: Export Kinect depth map to Blender

5 months ago

http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920020684.do

This book has quite a good example how to produce .stl data out of the kinect depthmap. And you can import .stl into blender

killkrt

Re: Re: Export Kinect depth map to Blender

5 months ago

Thank you, I read the book, very interesting and well written, to be honest I didn't find a lot of information about export PCL data to Blender, but for sure now I have a clear idea about how the Kinect data can be read and processed.

knutl

Re: Export Kinect depth map to Blender

5 months ago

Its in chapter 5. True, blender is not mentioned directly..but it describes how to generate and export a mesh, cleaning the mesh in meshlab If needed)and exporting it into .stl and .stl can be imported to blender easily

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