Yeah, I was thinking along similar lines when I first learned about Malus a couple days ago. Fine, so they get a “free” copy of open-source software that they can use without restrictions. What happens as time goes by and their “free” copy no longer receives any updates, fixes, improvements? I guess they can keep repeating the process every time a new version is released, but the whole thing seems counterproductive for anyone trying this.

I think that the technology may have evolved a lot since the early days of photogrammetry, or perhaps making a 3D model of a face is easier than a large object like in your example. Also, how do you suppose they got 3D scans of Picasso’s and Warhol’s faces for those perfect, life-like rubber faces on that video? They were both dead decades before the development of 3D scanning and photogrammetry.

Finally, here are some examples of photo to 3D model applications that appear to only need one photo:

• https://facegen.com/
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tETtRwCnLyg
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VahuZjIL5ME

Interesting, thanks. Maybe it’s something with the entire Ubuntu branch.

That’s odd. Maybe it’s a limitation with Ubuntu or their downstream distros. I’m now positive that all 3 of those distros I listed gave me the option to encrypt the disk during installation. This was in the last 3 months or so.

In my recent experience, I’m pretty sure all distros I tried (Debian, Bazzite, openSUSE) had a simple checkbox to do full disk encryption.