{"id":2598,"date":"2011-07-31T09:02:31","date_gmt":"2011-07-31T15:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/?p=2598"},"modified":"2011-07-31T14:02:52","modified_gmt":"2011-07-31T20:02:52","slug":"all-autodesk-software-free-to-students-and-educators-and-betas-for-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/all-autodesk-software-free-to-students-and-educators-and-betas-for-everyone\/","title":{"rendered":"All Autodesk software free to students and educators, and betas for everyone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think I need to pop my head out of my gopher-hole more often and see what my company&#8217;s doing. It turns out Autodesk software &#8211; including Maya, 3DS Max, Mudbox, AutoCAD, and everything else &#8211; is now\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/students.autodesk.com\/?nd=download_center\">free to students and educators<\/a>. Just <a href=\"http:\/\/students.autodesk.com\/?nd=register&amp;tagent=EDU-FY12_Launch_EC_Banner-JG-5-19-2011\">register<\/a> and you&#8217;re good to go. Wow, this is a big change from the old system, and is definitely great to see.<\/p>\n<p>There are also <a href=\"http:\/\/labs.autodesk.com\/?sortby=product\">a number of betas from Autodesk<\/a> free to anyone: one is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.123dapp.com\/\">123D<\/a>, a modeler that is aimed to help out the Maker crowd and 3d printing. I&#8217;ve installed this but haven&#8217;t played with it yet.<\/p>\n<p>Another project is\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/labs.autodesk.com\/utilities\/photo_scene_editor\/\">Photofly 2.0<\/a>, where you upload a number of images and it makes a 3D model from the data (i.e., <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Photogrammetry\">photogrammetry<\/a>). This is similar to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.my3dscanner.com\/\">My3dScanner<\/a>. I tried these two out on a set of photos of a bunch of bananas, some taken with a flash and some without, a hard test case. I definitely didn&#8217;t follow <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8YNrQA6eofI&amp;feature=youtu.be\">the guidelines<\/a>. My3dScanner threw up its hands, <a href=\"http:\/\/photosynth.net\/view.aspx?cid=94c0d762-66a8-44c9-9696-de75874ece32\">Photosynth&#8217;s point cloud<\/a> was incomprehensible, Photofly gave it a sporting chance, getting a cloud and making a mesh &#8211; no magic bullet yet, but fun to try. I&#8217;m now even tempted to RTFM, as results were better than I thought.<\/p>\n<p>Photosynth (examine set of photos\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/photosynth.net\/view.aspx?cid=94c0d762-66a8-44c9-9696-de75874ece32\">here<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photosynth.net\/view.aspx?cid=94c0d762-66a8-44c9-9696-de75874ece32\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2601\" title=\"photosynth\" src=\"http:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/photosynth.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"870\" height=\"559\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/photosynth.jpg 870w, https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/photosynth-300x192.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 870px) 100vw, 870px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photofly&#8217;s cubist rendering &#8211; it did output an interesting Wavefront OBJ model:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/2011-07-31_101315.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2600\" title=\"bananas\" src=\"http:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/2011-07-31_101315.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"686\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/2011-07-31_101315.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/2011-07-31_101315-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think I need to pop my head out of my gopher-hole more often and see what my company&#8217;s doing. It turns out Autodesk software &#8211; including Maya, 3DS Max, Mudbox, AutoCAD, and everything else &#8211; is now\u00a0free to students and educators. Just register and you&#8217;re good to go. Wow, this is a big change [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[478,480,479,481],"class_list":["post-2598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources","tag-autodesk","tag-educational","tag-free","tag-photogrammetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2598"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2606,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2598\/revisions\/2606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}