# Is technology to de-shakey-cam a movie possible?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 27, 2010, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-technology-to-de-shakey-cam-a-movie-possible/565495 "2010-12-27T05:31:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2011, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-technology-to-de-shakey-cam-a-movie-possible/565495/61 "2011-02-02T08:06:30Z")

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> [@Mangetout](#):
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> Sounds interesting. You should have patented it, rather than posting it here.

D’oh!

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**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2011, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-technology-to-de-shakey-cam-a-movie-possible/565495/62 "2011-02-02T14:35:46Z")

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> [@GuanoLad](#):
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> D’oh!

You could take the high road, proudly proclaiming, " Yes. I believe in open source coding. I’ve shared this idea not for mere profit but for the betterment of all personkind !!! "

Then share the code. Except for one small component seen below 8675309

😃

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**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2011, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-technology-to-de-shakey-cam-a-movie-possible/565495/63 "2011-02-02T18:37:45Z")

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> [@Mangetout](#):
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> Sounds interesting. You should have patented it, rather than posting it here.

The technology has existed for a while as part of [Image Based Rendering](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image-based_modeling_and_rendering). I saw a demo at SIGGRAPH where a 3D model was made of a space by just walking around with a single 2D camera. It made some errors that had to be manually fixed, but it had a very good idea of the dimensions of the space and what objects were in front of other objects.

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