Underwater Office
Original Images
The original image is taken underwater by Jason Taylor. As far as I can tell, it's a statue on top of a sunken chair with an old desk and typewriter. I thought the composition
was intriguing and bizarre, and that the 3D reconstruction would look eerie and pretty.
Reconstruction
I felt that the desk and typerwriter would be the best to model because of the colors in the scene. The underwater atmosphere really makes the desk and old typerwriter
look quite creepy. In addition, the angles made them perfect to model, since all the XYZ lines ran along the desk and typewriter edges.
The basic process was simple: outline all the desk edges to get the horizon points. From here I created polygons for each face that is facing the viewer (side of desk, top, legs, etc). I also
created a large polygon across the ground to get a 'floor' for the desk to sit on. After a bit of retouching of the texture maps, the desk comes out quite nicely. The final model is available: underwater_model.txt
Reconstructed Model
The final model turned out eerily well:
Texture Maps
Most of the texture maps were straightforward, except in a few cases where the statue or chair occluded the textures behind them. In these cases I touched them
up in photoshop by mimicking the same texture variation and light intensity as the area around it.
Reverse Perspective
Unfortunately, this scene is not very conducive to inversion or box modeling, so the reverse perspectives have been left out. However, check out the railroad example for a good box model with reverse perspective.
