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Cannot generate a manufacturable .obj model

Open toddwprice opened this issue 4 years ago • 2 comments

  • On macOS, I installed julia with brew install julia.
  • I modified the cat image to be black and white first, and save as a PNG: cat_posing
  • I added the Images package to my global environment. Then ran julia create_mesh.jl cat_posing.png. It generates the following .obj model, as seen imported into MeshMixer: model
  • Zipped and added here for reference: cat_posing.png.obj.zip

Unless I'm missing something, this model doesn't appear to have the desired features that would produce a "magic window". I'd love to help but thought I'd first see if anyone else has had success generating a model successfully.

toddwprice avatar Aug 26 '21 15:08 toddwprice

@toddwprice the surface details are very small so depending on the display settings of your modelling software, you may not be able to see them. If I open the file you linked in your above comment in Fusion 360, I can see the image of the cat because of the way Fusion displays mesh details. So I think you were successful in running the code and you got the expected result, it's just not easy to see in MeshMixer. Screen Shot 2022-03-29 at 12 07 18

timtomch avatar Mar 29 '22 16:03 timtomch

@timtomch thanks for the reply. How did you open the .obj file in Fusion 360 though? When I upload it and open it, it appears to be an empty mesh:

image

toddwprice avatar Mar 30 '22 14:03 toddwprice