CompuServe Messages

Ernie, Depending on how much of an object you want to model you need between 2 and 8 pictures. In the example of modeling a face you only need 2 photos. (And yes, you only work from 2 photos at a time). Since a human face is symmetrical (for the most part) you only need to model one half, and afterwards mirror that wireframe when you go to export it DXF. Draw a line of reference points down the center of the face, and all around the contours of that half (so you can easily find the exact same points in both Left and Right photographs). Let's say you want to model the whole head. In that case you would have to take 2 photos for the face (of one half the face, from the center of the nose to the ear) and 2 photos for the back of the head (of the center to the back of the ear). You can model these 2 objects seperately, and then you can use the Merge function, as you output DXF, to connect the 2 pieces together, creating an entire head. This method works exactly the same for modeling a car, or any other symmetrical object. If you want to model an entire NONsymmetrical you need 8 pictures. 2 for the front left half, 2 for the front right, 2 for the back left, and 2 for the back right. There. Was that a long-winded enough way to answer your picture question? -PAul