All I Wanna Do Is Zoom Zoom Zoom Zoom
Microsoft's Photosynth, the best thing to happen to photography since the digital camera.
By Farhad Manjoo
Posted Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2009
Two years ago, Blaise Aguera y Arcas, a developer at Microsoft, unveiled an application called Photosynth. In a fantastic presentation, he showed how the software can assemble a collection of digital snapshots taken at a certain place—say, all the Flickr photos of the Notre Dame Cathedral—into a grand, three-dimensional environment. What's more, Photosynth lets you pan and zoom through the resulting scene as if you're a director scouting out locations. On a large video screen, Aguera y Arcas showed how Photosynth had stitched together hundreds of tourist photos into an image of the Western Facade of Notre Dame. Then he clicked on the snarling gargoyles hanging above the main archway. The software zoomed in on that section—Photosynth had quickly selected the best Flickr photo of the gargoyles and smoothly shifted the 3-D scene to show where that single snapshot appeared on the face of the cathedral.
More at: http://www.slate.com/id/2209884/
What is Photosynth? http://photosynth.net/about.aspx
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