Modsy – Home design using 3D rendering
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Modsy – Home design using 3D rendering
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Re: Modsy – Home design using 3D rendering
#2Pretty cool stuff. Good luck with this venture!
Re: Modsy – Home design using 3D rendering
#3Pretty cool stuff. Good luck with this venture!
Sign up and do the style quiz, Brian! Margarita will surely bump you forward in the queue ;)
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#5Very interesting. I often kill time browsing through photos on houzz.com. There are also user discussion forums (formerly gardenweb.com I think) that talk about all sorts of home topics like house design, plumbers, etc.
I then think of computer build discussions[1] for gaming or AutoCAD work that insert links from pcpartpicker.com. Notice how pcpartpicker urls enables posters to easily dissect each others' "what if?" component choices.
It seems like a website could really combine the enthusiasm of the houzz/pinterest crowd with the deeper integration of a pcpartpicker.com. Instead of the "green tags"[2] on houzz being someone else's choice (and hence an unchangeable "ad"), the green tags would be picked by the user of a particular 3D generated model. The "green tags" could also be choices crowdsourced from others including freelance interior designers.
[1]http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1988274/good-computer...
[2]example: http://www.houzz.com/photos/30526217/Black-Is-The-New-Farmho...
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#6This is coming just in time. I moved into my new place nearly 6 months ago (more than double the square footage) and the place is still sitting mostly empty because I haven't had the time to do anything about it. Really interested to try this out.
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#7Very nice idea! Figuring out what furniture works in what space is such a pain... I for one welcome our new robot/AI furnishing overlords.
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#8The service works like this: The homeowner takes several pictures of the space they want to decorate — ideally a photo from each of the room’s corners. Then, these photos are uploaded to Modsy after which the homeowner takes a style quiz about their likes and dislikes. This takes about 5 minutes and basically involves clicking on photos. Then Modsy takes over. About 48 hours later, the results are delivered.
Modsy uses a technique called point cloud reconstruction. This is the easy part, Tellerman says explaining the whole process is similar to a film pipeline with a preproduction, production and post production. The homeowner provides the service with the necessary media. The company then puts it through its rendering systems that reconstructions the room in a 3D space and then a system plugs in furnishings per the homeowner’s style direction.
What what?? I thought 2d to 3d reconstruction was an ongoing computer vision problem? This talks like it is solved.
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#9It's a cool idea but seems like it will be difficult to get paying customers at $40 a pop. The value is there, but people are not used to paying this way.
I wonder if instead revenue could be extracted from purchases made based on the renderings, or via other partnerships.
Re: Modsy – Home design using 3D rendering
#10The service works like this: The homeowner takes several pictures of the space they want to decorate — ideally a photo from each of the room’s corners. Then, these photos are uploaded to Modsy after which the homeowner takes a style quiz about their likes and dislikes. This takes about 5 minutes and basically involves clicking on photos. Then Modsy takes over. About 48 hours later, the results are delivered. Modsy us…
They note it's only partially automated.