Glad to have indirectly helped you out of a bind!

Welcome to the channel! Lots of tutorials here like this one that should prove of use hopefully :)

Glad it was helpful!

Glad it was helpful!

You're welcome!

@@AussieBIMGuru when i bake this final geometry ....... colours are not available as material on it..... can u please help me?

@@priyankpatel9676 yes materials need to be made and applied when its created separately. The elefront package has some ways of achieving this, try that one out.

Cheers Firas!

I believe you'd always need to sample at points seeming the pixels are sampled using a UV point. If you have a grid of cells, you could grab their centroids and use these as the testpoints if you needed the cell equivalent pixel.

@@AussieBIMGuru oh I see... I'm gonna test both options. Thank you for the explanation!

Glad you liked it!

Indeed you could. A multiplication node on the non-driven dimension would do the trick!

In basic terms yes, although they each have distinct strengths over one another. Both are their respective 'home platforms' visual coding platform.

In this case I just got the depth map from the internet. Most people use a rendering process with a Zdepth mask to make a depth map, see this link for an example using Vray; cgi.tutsplus.com/tutorials/two-ways-to-generate-z-depth-in-3ds-max--cms-22640

In this case I found it on the internet, but no doubt there are AI tools which can do this to a degree out there nowadays.

@@AussieBIMGuru ah I see, it's a pity that it can't be done directly in grasshopper!

@@riccardofoschi it probably can be, but youd need a 3d model to generate a depth map of.

@@AussieBIMGuru oh yea, I already know how to do that in rhino natively, so doing it in grasshopper shouldn't be too difficult I guess, what it's difficult it's guessing the depth from an image with no depht information, for that I think you need some sort of neural network as you said

Generally this would be made using a separate rendering engine/program and an actual 3D modelled object to render (e.g. the mona lisa as a 3d object). You could use a falloff map for example. It's not generally possible to make one just from a 2D image.

It actually does! The shadows make it look like she's rockin a beard haha.

@@AussieBIMGuru Thanks for the tutorial. I used image sampler a few years ago and forgot about it completely lol