Found this neat app via Boing Boing.

OGLE is a free open-source plugin developed by the Eyebeam R&D group to work with GLIntercept (Another Free open-source tool). Essentially, anything that gets rendered to your screen via OpenGL, it will let you save to disk as an OBJ file for easy import into any modeling package. He has some really neat examples of grabbing geometry from World of Warcraft and then actually using a Stereolithography printer to create a physical model of his character. He also uses it with Google Earth to grab geometry of buildings from major cities.

A neat application with some useful applications, especially for where I work. It does have some limitations, but it’s a v0.1 product so I expect more work to be done with it. It has trouble with Display Lists and Vertex Programs, and it won’t grab Textures (geometry only). Still, it’s a great find.

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