Generate Depth and Normal Maps with Blender

1 · Saif Khan · Dec. 26, 2021, midnight
Blender is popular open-source 3D computer graphics tool widely used among the developer community, with over 14 million downloads in 2020 alone. Primarily aimed at the 3D modelling and animation industry, such as for games, advertisements and entertainment, it also offers researchers working on 3D reconstruction a powerful tool at their disposal for generation of ground-truth 3D data. 3D reconstruction is an active research field in which we try to recreate the 3D shape of an object or a scene ...