refills_blender

A collection of Blender scripts used in the REFILLS project.

Creation of Naive Product Meshes

We created a script that generates naive product meshes from a (hopefully high-res) front picture and bounding box information.

Installation

You need at least Blender v2.79. For Ubuntu 14.04 and Ubuntu 16.04, go to the Blender website and download the newest pre-compiled binaries.

You also need to enable the plugin import_image_to_plane. That is a standard plugin that is disabled by default. Open Blender, and then go to File > User Preferences > Import-Export and activate the tick on "Import-Export: Import Images as Planes". Then, hit "Save User Settings". You should only need to do this once.

Running the script

Example call for creating the Somat mesh from the included example data (width=14cm, depth=10cm, height=15cm):

$ ~/blender-2.79b-linux-glibc219-x86_64/blender -P scripts/create_naive_box_mesh.py --background -- images/somat_classic_pulver.png meshes/somat_classic_pulver.dae 0.14 0.1 0.15