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		akx on May 16, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to automatically choose a camera viewing angle... Hmm, my (admittedly naive) idea would be to render several shots of the product from different quasi-random angles and look at the final entropy/contrastiness of the image to find the most interesting one (the one that captures most detail).

alok-g on May 16, 2013 [–]

And if fine-tuning of the angles is desired, a genetic algorithm should work great for optimization in this case.

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