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Photographers know that Photography will change forever with this ultra-new technology
Imagine a technology indistinguishable from magic capable of reconstructing reality in three dimensions from three or four 2D photos.
Between so much fusion and hypersonic aircraft always just around the corner, from time to time an invention appears that already exists, right now, that leaves me speechless and absolutely amazed.
This is the case with this new photographic technology from the North American company Nvidia.
As the science-fiction author, Arthur C. Clarke would say, its technology advanced enough to be indistinguishable from magic.
Instant NeRF is the acronym in English for Neural Radiance Fields or neuronal radiance fields in Spanish. This technique can recreate reality with total precision and in three dimensions from three or four photographs, even things that have not been photographed and remain hidden in all the photos.
The result is simply incredible in the literal sense: when you see it you can’t believe it. If you find it difficult to imagine, watch this video, and you will understand them perfectly:
How does it work
There are programs capable of generating three-dimensional scenes from simple photographs. But apart from being very crude, they require photographs of the objects from absolutely every angle. Anything not photographed will appear as a black void. Quite simply, if you have not captured the information, it is impossible to reproduce it until now.
With Instant NeRF, a neural network recreates reality that cannot be seen in photos with stunning accuracy. In the video above these lines, you can see things that have not been captured. The back of her hair, hairstyle included, the nape of her neck, her back, her legs… everything, absolutely everything that is invisible and non-existent in the photographs is…
