AI recreated heightmap in Alchemist

gnoop

I decided to give Alchemist another  try , especially its AI based heights reconstruction  on a rocky subjects  I heard it works nice with it .   And I am  getting kind of disappointing results.    Wonder does anyone managed to make it better somehow,

left is  photogrammetry , right is Alchemist AI  rendered with shadows. I used  one of the photos from same series  i did for photogrammetry half.

Looks like AI isn't there yet ,  Or maybe  it's not a well trained for  such subject ?     Have anyone been able to get  kind of sharper   less  melted down and more specific shape of things  with it?      Delighting also  looks so so.  Just like a quick  hipass filter . Am I expecting too much of AI?

Can Alchemist  mix AI and  photogrammetry somehow ?    Is there   anything other cool  and new to try  in ALchemist?

Jerc

Just wanted to point out that the normal to height filter in Alchemist is not using machine learning. It is a complex algorithm but no AI involved. Is the image on the left a height map only? it looks like it has actual geometry with concave angles and such.

gnoop

I dropped a photo. one of those I used for photogrammetry ,   like this one 

and chose "image to material AI Powered"       then exported this material and used its height map  to displace  a tessellated plane in ClarisseFX.

ps, Actually  this time  it turns better  looking  , not sure why  but stones  less melted down while using all same displacement settings

It's kind of more acceptable , I wonder does Alchemist has a tool set  to edit imported  photogrammetry  based pairs of color + height map?   Fix  bad areas, make seamless. re-compositing etc?

Year ago I tried to do so with Artomatix  but ended up just using  Zbrush + patch tool . Have never been satisfied enough with  their AI.  Still looking forward for  an AI  that could help to get rid  of tedious  things.