2019

Photos to Textures

A process converting photographs of natural textures into digital elevation models, 3D surfaces, and contour drawings.

digitallandscaperesearchdesign

Services: computational design, digital fabrication, research
Year: 2019

Photos to Textures

A workflow converting photographs of natural textures — sand, sand ridges, seed spikes — into digital elevation models (DEM), 3D surfaces, and contour drawings. Each texture is presented as a four-step sequence: photo, DEM, surface, contour.

Original photograph of sand texture — Source photograph

Digital elevation model derived from photograph — Digital elevation model

Generated 3D surface from sand photo — 3D surface

Seed spike texture full study — Seed spike study