Used to be able to do this on a program called Imagine3D on my Amiga last millennium.

I'd like to import a PNG or GIF image with transparent regions, like a logo or a picture of text, and have it turned automatically into a polygon/nurb object, which I can then extrude to make it 3D.

So far I have selected one of the orthographic views and imported the PNG (with transparent layer) as an Image Plane (as shown below), but am lost as to what to do thereafter, or even if that's the correct way to go about it.



Thanks.