http://ogle.eyebeamresearch.org/

Basically what this allows you to do is to open any opengl application and export scenes to 3d meshs to do with as you please, for example they've used a 3D Printer to create little models of WoW characters

OGLE (i.e. OpenGLExtractor) is a software package by Eyebeam R&D that allows for the capture and re-use of 3D geometry data from 3D graphics applications running on Microsoft Windows. It works by observing the data flowing between 3D applications and the system's OpenGL library, and recording that data in a standard 3D file format. In other words, a 'screen grab' or 'view source' operation for 3D data.

The primary motivation for developing OGLE is to make available for re-use the 3D forms we see and interact with in our favorite 3D applications. Video gamers have a certain love affair with characters from their favorite games; animators may wish to reuse environments or objects from other applications or animations which don't provide data-level access; architects could use this to bring 3D forms into their proposals and renderings; and digital fabrication technologies make it possible to automatically instantiate 3D objects in the real world.

Nice i give it a go ta WET maenz..

You'd wanna hope that games don't pick this up as some form of hack injection.

yeah saw this linked from boing boing or slashdot a few days ago. can't remember which one :)

i've never tried dll injection being a linux programmer and all but I assume there's an .so library equivalent of glextractor for linux.

I heard something like that was going to be used in acrobat.