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Boffins are continuously coming out with new research papers and you can follow some of them on YouTube and other sites. You can see the constant progression of graphics research and most of it at this point in time is focused on using AI to look at images. This paper called Trellis3D by Microsoft research has been pointed out to me and takes a static image, or a set of static images, and turns it into a 3D object. So using the exact blog image from the last posts I pushed the statue ...