AutoLens
AutoLens is an experimental NukeX tool from DeadCow VFX that estimates lens distortion, solves camera motion, reconstructs rough 3D scene geometry, and creates artist-guided projection surfaces directly from production footage using COLMAP.
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GITHUB · launched Sep 13, 2026 · 18 upvotes (top 43%) · 0 views
Niche: visual effects plugins and libraries · 37 launches, 2 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- Workflow automation
- B2B
- AI feature
- Commercial product
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Could you build this?
No This requires computer vision expertise in Structure-from-Motion (SfM), photogrammetry pipelines (COLMAP), camera calibration, and native C++/Python plugin integration with the NukeX VFX pipeline.
What it would actually take: The tool requires integrating COLMAP's sparse reconstruction, feature extraction, and bundle adjustment pipelines directly into Foundry Nuke via Python and C++ Nuke plugins. The difficult parts include accurate radial and tangential lens distortion estimation from moving footage, transforming COLMAP point clouds and camera matrices into Nuke 3D coordinate space, and generating UV-unwrapped projection surfaces.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 75 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #23 of 76 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 261 days after the earliest competitor.
- GenFill · github · 2026-10-13 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- DataLens AI · ph · 2026-09-07 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- AutoShade · ph · 2026-10-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Tamron Lens Utility Alternative on Linux · hn · 2026-08-07 · 82 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- MyLens · ph · 2026-10-18 · 172 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- MoGe-nuke · github · 2026-09-09 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- lieflat-code-video · github · 2026-10-31 · 29 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- PartLens · ph · 2026-10-02 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.39
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