Create DEPTH MAPS from AI images for 3D LASER ENGRAVING

In this video Im going to share a little process I came across while researching depth map generation from AI images for laser engraving. The best part is you dont need to learn any crazy 3D rendering software.
Disclaimer: As mentioned in the video, I didn't create this program, so please use it at your own discretion. I've been testing it out myself for a little while but am unaware of its full capabilities and limitations yet.
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  • @stevewalsh5479
    @stevewalsh54794 ай бұрын

    Excellent - short and straight to the key points! Most KZreadrs would have dragged this out to 30 minutes. Thank you!

  • @roman_fla
    @roman_fla3 ай бұрын

    I am hooked on watching your videos for the last couple of hours. I love the conetent without the filibuster.

  • @matthysloedolff
    @matthysloedolff4 ай бұрын

    To quote Bill & Ted: "excellent!" Thanks for the quick tutorial, Justin.

  • @justinlaser

    @justinlaser

    4 ай бұрын

    Haha thanks man!

  • @makeorbreakshop
    @makeorbreakshop3 ай бұрын

    Oh this is excellent! I've been wanting to do some type of video on AI images for lasers and didn't even think about the engraving side with depth maps!

  • @circleofowls
    @circleofowls4 ай бұрын

    I'll have to try this on my CNC, thanks!

  • @Limitlessengraver
    @Limitlessengraver4 ай бұрын

    looks cool. And thank you for the tag 🙌

  • @justinlaser

    @justinlaser

    4 ай бұрын

    No problem love your stuff!

  • @MichaelTodoran
    @MichaelTodoran3 ай бұрын

    I love this tutorial. Zero fat. Thank You!

  • @derekwright2388
    @derekwright23884 ай бұрын

    Brilliant! Now for some playing!

  • @justinlaser

    @justinlaser

    4 ай бұрын

    I need to get my fiber set back up this gives me so many new designs to try.

  • @mfmageiwatch
    @mfmageiwatch4 ай бұрын

    This is something I was trying to get MJ to make for me for almost a full year now. Very exciting!

  • @mfmageiwatch

    @mfmageiwatch

    4 ай бұрын

    Oh hmmm, idk if i trust this setup, but at least it means it's possible and a more trustworthy option might be coming along the pipeline soon!

  • @justinlaser

    @justinlaser

    4 ай бұрын

    The project has been around for a while seems fine. Its all running on virtual machine anyways.

  • @TKs3DPrints
    @TKs3DPrints3 ай бұрын

    this is exactly the way i do it but i take things a couple steps further. i tend to use the depth map for my ruff cut.. then i will check the engraving if its black then i will inverse the original image and engrave back over it again to bring back details and clean the engraving up.. if the engraving is clean i will then just engrave the original picture again as its 2nd pass to bring the details back.. i have been using this for over a year. mdf is great to do it on though be careful the deeper you burn the less dense the mdf is due to the way its made under rollers.. i also use a diode laser.. but was looking into fibre laser at the start but prices out of my range.. this saves me posting a video.. thanks for uploading

  • @b-rad7708

    @b-rad7708

    12 күн бұрын

    You should still post. Sounds like a much better method of retaining the details which is why I really wanted to learn more about depth mapping. To me the details are what make a depth map, a depth map. Idk, this process is def interesting. It just seems not that worth it, with all the details gone. Better yet just "seams" like one part of a bigger picture. lol, I really do mean that tho.

  • @exploreviewworld
    @exploreviewworld3 ай бұрын

    Nice ,thanks for your great video

  • @6r4metroman
    @6r4metroman3 ай бұрын

    Thanks for this, looks really interesting as a one stop does all. I do get a runtime error but after the prompt says to restart the session it works fine, 20mb file took 6mins, I'll be trying this tomorrow on my 60w jpt. Thanks again 🙂

  • @JamesDeanDesigns
    @JamesDeanDesigns4 ай бұрын

    Nice, useful video. Thank you

  • @justinlaser

    @justinlaser

    4 ай бұрын

    Thank you appreciate it!

  • @infographie
    @infographie3 ай бұрын

    Excellent.

  • @RoseKindred
    @RoseKindred3 ай бұрын

    This was interesting, thank you. I do something similar using Blender and another for making texture maps. It is a few more steps though.

  • @SwissplWatches
    @SwissplWatchesАй бұрын

    awesome video thankyou!

  • @Thecraftyblacksheep
    @Thecraftyblacksheep4 ай бұрын

    Love this.

  • @justinlaser

    @justinlaser

    4 ай бұрын

    Appreciate it!

  • @JAYTHEGREAT355
    @JAYTHEGREAT3554 ай бұрын

    Great video . 🎉.

  • @justinlaser

    @justinlaser

    4 ай бұрын

    Appreciate it!

  • @vallesan
    @vallesan4 ай бұрын

    🤯 awesome. I got try. I have a 80W CO2 laser. Thank you

  • @justinlaser

    @justinlaser

    4 ай бұрын

    Youll be blasting deep designs with 80w

  • @vallesan

    @vallesan

    4 ай бұрын

    @@justinlaser Justin. Thank for reply. Only have a month with my laser . The air assistant is the little air pump from factory. Is ok ? Or I need 30 psi from a compressor?

  • @pw3111
    @pw31113 ай бұрын

    Great video. Thanks. The only problem is it would stop half way through and say it has an update and I would have to start again. It finally worked by making sure I didn't get out but just restarted.

  • @kbqvist
    @kbqvist3 ай бұрын

    Really interesting! As I'm sure you are aware, color images can be converted to black and white, which is the way I need to use depth maps, in many different ways, resulting in different black and white tonal variation. Do you have a favored way to make this conversion to bw?

  • @onjofilms
    @onjofilms4 ай бұрын

    Thanks.

  • @storytellerHD
    @storytellerHD2 ай бұрын

    This info is quite a gem. Thank you for the quick run through. We have several high powered Epilog lasers and found this useful fo certain projects. We're looking around the page and we don't see the technical specs or limits on file size (MB or GB), type (.PNG, .TIF. .JPG, Raw, etc.), or resolution (DIMS). Do you happen to know?

  • @stephen5426

    @stephen5426

    2 ай бұрын

    the files I get from Midjourney are PNG's. I have a co2 60watt it worked (for the most part) on some rough cedar but severely lacks detail. As stated in video this more for fiber lasers with brass or other metal coins or it also works on slate tile.

  • @harky957
    @harky9573 ай бұрын

    hi.. thanks for the tips. ive just tried it but there doesnt seem to be much detail in the high res image?

  • @lizardfreakboy
    @lizardfreakboy3 ай бұрын

    I have done a few of these this exact way. And seems that the final depth map looses so much detail that it just looks terrible with mt jpt 50 watt.

  • @DMT4Dinner
    @DMT4Dinner2 ай бұрын

    Ty

  • @aaronstanley6914
    @aaronstanley6914Ай бұрын

    this worked fairly well the weird thing is it scewed the image so the top right corner is lower than the rest of teh design which is weird

  • @denislavdochev3783
    @denislavdochev37832 ай бұрын

    Does it produce smooth enough images for Vectric Aspire?

  • @mogergog
    @mogergog13 күн бұрын

    Thank you for the video, do you know how to use this solution in Jupyter Notebook?

  • @Jwalk9000
    @Jwalk90004 ай бұрын

    This would also be great for creating custom brushes for blender a zbrush.

  • @justinlaser

    @justinlaser

    4 ай бұрын

    That sounds awesome. I need to learn Blender.

  • @tysonclarke012
    @tysonclarke0128 күн бұрын

    Reckon you could use this to create an stl for printing?

  • @BUY_YT_Views_611
    @BUY_YT_Views_6114 ай бұрын

    This is KZread gold

  • @justinlaser

    @justinlaser

    4 ай бұрын

    🙏🙏

  • @fate2022
    @fate2022Ай бұрын

    I started using this and worked great, but now I keep getting an error towards the very end saying my images are 4 channel and need to be 3 channel RGB, cleared cookies and cache, still the same, it's not working :(

  • @constantinosschinas4503
    @constantinosschinas45033 ай бұрын

    I think stable diffusion also creates depthmaps, even from normal photographs or panoramas.

  • @fate2022
    @fate20223 ай бұрын

    when you say find files in google downloads, do you mean my google drive, or my local computer downloads folder? Because I'm not seeing anything in my local download, or my google drive. A lot of info missing here, like how to download the files, not clear, what format should the files be? And then of course how to actually use the file to create an actual 3d engraving. Otherwise a great informative video, much appreciated.

  • @ghost00tj
    @ghost00tj3 ай бұрын

    Awesome video. I pressed cancel on the refresh error and then it completed the file Thanks BILL SMITH edited from: I keep getting a error toward the end. It seems that it's almost done and it says need to run again.

  • @higherstandardspc
    @higherstandardspc4 ай бұрын

    Awesome video, well spoken and concise : ) I suppose a 10 watt diode laser can't do this? Either way I enjoy your content and subscribed ; )

  • @justinlaser

    @justinlaser

    4 ай бұрын

    Thanks! 10w most likely cant just because its not powerful enough. But I use my diode lasers using grayscale mode to do nearly photorealistic image engravings. Thats where a weaker diode laser shines.

  • @higherstandardspc

    @higherstandardspc

    4 ай бұрын

    @@justinlaser Kind of what I thought : ) thank you for the reply, I will follow and maybe I get lucky and see a video how I might do the photo realistic engraving. Thank You Again : )

  • @awesomeisi92
    @awesomeisi92Ай бұрын

    Any solution for a 3d ai mesh model to cover all sides of the depth map?

  • @metallicaandchimaira
    @metallicaandchimaira2 ай бұрын

    This is great but you cant do it with 4k or 8k res images. What I do is upscale the original picture 3 times but the final model in aspire isnt that great. I noticed the higher res of the photo, the more polygons it will have in the end model. I tried to use a 4k image to make the polycount at least 2mil high. However this program does not let me generate a depth map of that quality of image.

  • @mariodebnarik5044
    @mariodebnarik504415 күн бұрын

    Great but the details are not so high...how to improve it please

  • @ilmaru7680
    @ilmaru76802 ай бұрын

    Is it possible to transform the depth map to 3d model?

  • @storytellerHD
    @storytellerHD2 ай бұрын

    We keep trying but we're getting an error, regardless of the apparent size or image type. The error reads > AssertionError: x must have 3 channels, got 4. When we look at the explanation, the app is looking for 3 RGB chnnels and got 4 instead (we only have 3 though in the image attributes).

  • @ssssssss4053
    @ssssssss40533 ай бұрын

    when you asked for viewers to click like the like buttons become highlighted for a brief moment.....how did you do that?

  • @BenoitBarbagli
    @BenoitBarbagli2 ай бұрын

    Hello, I am looking for a solution to generate deep maps for the "tiles". This method is challenging because the AI interprets the right and left, top and bottom differently.

  • @ShortBetter
    @ShortBetter3 ай бұрын

    Awesome tutorial! Seems to be super easy process! I just followed the steps you gave, but the final result turn out to be not as yours. My image doesn't have much height of the details. it mostly looks very flat. How do I add "more 3d" effect to it? Thanks!

  • @roofoofighter

    @roofoofighter

    3 ай бұрын

    Run it again if you want more depth

  • @ShortBetter

    @ShortBetter

    3 ай бұрын

    @@roofoofighter do you mean running the final image again? Or just try one more time with the original image?

  • @roofoofighter

    @roofoofighter

    3 ай бұрын

    @@ShortBetter I mean leave the workpiece in place (don’t move it) and re-run the job again. Every time you run it the engraving will be deeper in the darkest areas of the image. Once you like the outcome you can stop.

  • @kevinrich4637
    @kevinrich46374 ай бұрын

    What type of file does it generate? SVG, DXF? I only have a DX1 10 watt but have a CNC. Can the file be in color? Sorry for so many questions but I want to delve into AI. Thank you for your time

  • @justinlaser

    @justinlaser

    4 ай бұрын

    Most AI programs will output a jpg or png. The ZoeDepth program will only accept jpg/png for conversion. This is all OK because when you engrave grayscale images like this its a raster engraving process, not vector. Having color in the image shouldnt matter it will be discarded when processing.

  • @kevinrich4637

    @kevinrich4637

    4 ай бұрын

    Thank you

  • @overpope3510
    @overpope35103 ай бұрын

    You can do this or use basic photoshop skills. But skills are so 2020 right?

  • @cancan-xo5up
    @cancan-xo5upАй бұрын

    How you imported the photo. I have a photo of my cat

  • @Fevaboy2011
    @Fevaboy20114 ай бұрын

    Man great video, what would the settings be on laser burn for a tool d1 10w to get this effect

  • @justinlaser

    @justinlaser

    4 ай бұрын

    Theres nothing stopping you from trying this with a 10w but the problem is they lack enough power to do the really deep levels of engraving. You can try running with really high power and doing several passes to see if it works. xTool Creative Space or Lightburn just use Grayscale mode for image processing.

  • @TKs3DPrints

    @TKs3DPrints

    3 ай бұрын

    will work fine on the d1 i use xtool machines and used this method for over a year now to carve my work.. though if you use the words wood relief stone or bas relief it will generate a 3d looking image that even as an engraving will look carved.. but depending on the wood you are trying to carve. there are limits..

  • @Fevaboy2011

    @Fevaboy2011

    3 ай бұрын

    @@TKs3DPrints what would be the best wood? And also a wood without any idk what you call it but the wood has lines in it after I engrave, I need a wood with no artifacts

  • @TKs3DPrints

    @TKs3DPrints

    3 ай бұрын

    @Fevaboy2011 yea finding good wood without growth rings is hard.. might be worth trying thick sheets of solid balsa but i am finding them hard to find.. we used to have a model aircraft shop that sold sheets but they closed down years ago.. might be worth looking into or trees that may be from warm climates as there winter growth rings wont be as dense.. mdf works but you cant go to deep as its compressed boards so the more to the middle of the board you go the more uncompressed it is.. if there are any skilled wood carvers out there. that could give an idea.

  • @stephen5426

    @stephen5426

    2 ай бұрын

    @@Fevaboy2011 mdf

  • @seryoger
    @seryoger3 ай бұрын

    Can you give link from 2:47 ?

  • @akademikolmayanperspektif6831
    @akademikolmayanperspektif6831Ай бұрын

    my chrome not download aotomatcly. how can I do?

  • @LionTree
    @LionTree3 ай бұрын

    ONE CLICK!??

  • @FusionMan-ev9yh
    @FusionMan-ev9yh14 күн бұрын

    Can I have a copy of that dragon image file please?

  • @karenhadden4980
    @karenhadden49804 ай бұрын

    Will these work for a diode laser and XCS as well?

  • @justinlaser

    @justinlaser

    4 ай бұрын

    Yes but unless you have a 40w it might not get you the depth you want in wood. Usually done with higher power co2 lasers.

  • @karenhadden4980

    @karenhadden4980

    4 ай бұрын

    @@justinlaser I have the 40w

  • @TKs3DPrints

    @TKs3DPrints

    3 ай бұрын

    been using this method for over a year with d1 pro 10w.. you just need to do multiple passes. may take longer but will work..

  • @bridge1444
    @bridge14443 ай бұрын

    "We don't like to anger our server Overlords". Ultimate slave quote.

  • @jameswall1076
    @jameswall10764 ай бұрын

    Why can’t I get it to run? I’ve clicked all over the cell, hit ctrl+f9….nothing.

  • @justinlaser

    @justinlaser

    4 ай бұрын

    Make sure you are connected and if Ctrl+F9 isnt working you can click the little play button next to that text.

  • @konstantinoshatzimihail4199
    @konstantinoshatzimihail41993 ай бұрын

    Hey guys i need some help. After uploading and running the programm a message about runtime restarting pops up. Now, either i hit cancel or restart, the result is the same... no depth maps fore me... :( What do i do wrong here?

  • @stephen5426

    @stephen5426

    2 ай бұрын

    ignore error and do not click cancel or restart and at the bottom of screen you will see it "processing" it will then automatically download the finished image to your computer's download folder. it took about 13 minutes or so to finish after I saw the error message....

  • @konstantinoshatzimihail4199

    @konstantinoshatzimihail4199

    2 ай бұрын

    @@stephen5426 Hey! I found it later by mistake, thank you for the response!

  • @andymeenanvideos
    @andymeenanvideos3 ай бұрын

    Will this work for 3D printing insted of engraving?

  • @TKs3DPrints

    @TKs3DPrints

    3 ай бұрын

    it could be done but would take a lot of messing about to convert a depth map to a solid 3d model.. but depends on the slicer you are using.. also if you was able to you would not have much details in the model..

  • @JoshuaBlackmon

    @JoshuaBlackmon

    3 ай бұрын

    Theoretically, it should work to create a model of the same depth as if it were engraved. Engraving is removing negative space from a solid cylinder to produce the positive image. Additive manufacturing ignores the negative space and simply builds up the positive space only.

  • @aloreactusplayer1776
    @aloreactusplayer17763 ай бұрын

    love the video but this is how you get your acount hacked in 0.3 sec

  • @d.i.d

    @d.i.d

    3 ай бұрын

    So make a new empty account for this job 😉

  • @ArnaudMEURET

    @ArnaudMEURET

    3 ай бұрын

    Why?

  • @kellyjean4981

    @kellyjean4981

    Ай бұрын

    I appreciate your warning. Do you know of another option?

  • @aloreactusplayer1776

    @aloreactusplayer1776

    Ай бұрын

    @@kellyjean4981 you can do this in fotoshop

  • @user-bx9hy4ht7j
    @user-bx9hy4ht7jАй бұрын

    keep getting the error "AssertionError: x must have 3 channels, got 4"

  • @dreamineer21
    @dreamineer2112 күн бұрын

    Keep getting an error : (

  • @KenyonKores
    @KenyonKores3 ай бұрын

    I keep getting an error saying “x must have 3 channels, got 4” Any ideas?

  • @TomPearce

    @TomPearce

    3 ай бұрын

    RGB should only have 3 channels, but this image has 4. I had the same issue, I opened my image in photopea(or your editor of choice probably), made sure the mode was RGB and resaved it and then it worked.

  • @KenyonKores

    @KenyonKores

    3 ай бұрын

    @@TomPearce thanks, Man! I figured it out shortly after posting this but I appreciate you giving me a good answer. Looks like the transparency is the 4th layer, I had no idea but now I see the big difference in jpg vs png.

  • @roofoofighter
    @roofoofighter3 ай бұрын

    03:18 There’s something wrong with your engraving, there’s a vertical line on the right side of the dragon.

  • @barleyhopps
    @barleyhopps8 күн бұрын

    World loves those Satanic images

  • @legionjames1822
    @legionjames18223 ай бұрын

    anyone thinking 3d printing?

  • @dansv9778
    @dansv9778Ай бұрын

    x must have 3 channels, got 4 ??

  • @terryclair2914
    @terryclair29142 ай бұрын

    I won't use Google for anything, but thanks anyway!

  • @vincgordo5861
    @vincgordo586123 күн бұрын

    "bas relief" is a french word for "low depth sculpture"... you should pronounce it in French.

  • @joekazadi1252

    @joekazadi1252

    10 күн бұрын

    Most French thing I’ve ever read 😂🔥

  • @vincgordo5861

    @vincgordo5861

    10 күн бұрын

    @@joekazadi1252 lol sur! but relief in english absolutely won't mean the same thing. so.. it's just a technical term.

  • @jihadj.najmuddin9784
    @jihadj.najmuddin97843 ай бұрын

    Ai user.

  • @jeanrenaudviers
    @jeanrenaudviers3 ай бұрын

    No Google, nor Chrome are needed. Liar.

  • @user-ht3gr6lp7h
    @user-ht3gr6lp7h2 ай бұрын

    error.. low_res_depth = dependencies['zoe'].infer_pil(img)

  • @LeMortso
    @LeMortso3 ай бұрын

    Man, this is NOT easy. Is AI the ONLY method of generating image depth maps? Is there a manual (analog) method?