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2d Bitmap Height-map Filter

Really really useful would be a text to image feature that creates a 2d height map that is used to generate a tool path for machines to cut or carve material.  its really easy to use, but not a lot of options out there for this.  I think machine people would sign up for it.  I can show you a height map and the original.  It’s plotted like this; Black is the lowest or furthest away from the camera, white is the highest and closest to the camera. a perceived depth map essentially.  iPhones create them automatically, its what they use to create their blurring or AI functions like cutting out etc etc.  They look like this

 and they translate to machines like this; 

Pretty fucking cool right??

I cannot for the life of me get the prompt to generate it with text, but if you had this filter, I know for a fact it would be hella hella useful.  Look closely in the archway, the gradient of the pixel colors correspond to the awesome details that show up on the CAM software.

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  • Silver River

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    Nov 16, 2025

    This might already be possible with Image edit and prompting with something like “Turn this image into a depth map while retaining all spacial details.” If not I think newer image editing models are including this and other controlnet features by default so when Venice updates this might be present by default in the image edit model.