photosynth

    new microsoft thing that does some real awesome stuff with pictures, great demo here:

    http://videosift.com/story.php?id=6578

    i'm just imagining what this can do when combined with a crawler that nips pics from webshots and flickr. imagine being able to fly around a building that you want to map and have thousands of pictures arranged on a 3d model so that you can fly to exactly what you want. has awesome potential. i've got about 500 pictures gathered for something i've been working on and it would be incredibly nifty if this could sew them all together for me

    this application is built on some really cool tech, using the Windows Presentation Foundation which is really just a markup lang. You can build applications just like this one now with current MS CTPs

    Is the 3d model automated, or do you have to create it yourself?

    Somehow i think they created it themselves and took a bunch of panaramic pictures to make this tool seem useful. But i am just being negative

    the guy speculated potential use. the model is supposedly automated, i guess they could have made it themselves for a demo because its uncompleted, but id hope it would it it itself once the product's done, at least with some suggestions as to placement.

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    i cant imagine how it could possibly create it all by itself.

    There are algorithms who can manage that. You can google around for some papers. Its interesting. My opinion of that application is: it sucks! Why? It does not make any sense. For what should it be used? Digitalising architecture? Dont make me laugh.

    Wfr, Sindwiller

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    There are algorithms who can manage that. You can google around for some papers. Its interesting. My opinion of that application is: it sucks! Why? It does not make any sense. For what should it be used? Digitalising architecture? Dont make me laugh.

    Wfr, Sindwiller

    It looks like a tool that bewildered housewifes would be stunned by.

    If there are such algorithms that can make 3d out of 2d, then this program would be worth gold, but i suspect you have to do some work yourself before it can work

    it doesnt actually make a 3d model, but it arranges the photos in 3d so that you can fly around in them, its a great way to manage pictures like the clock thing, you could just fly to it instead of sifting through a directory of pictures to find one. not to mention that if it were combined with a crawler it would make finding ither people's pictures infinitely easier.

    Really fascinating stuff. I don't see much real world practical use for it beyond idle diversion, but that is a really, really interesting project. I'm glad people are putting computers and the wealth of distributed data on the internet to use with such noble intentions.

    i see big real world potential for it

    - for interested travellers to get a better impression of a place before they go there

    - for architects and students to study buildings/architecture in a more interactive way

    - for archeologist/students to visualize/study places

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    And what the hell should that have something to do with Gamedesign?? :roll: Wfr, Sindwiller

    This is the offtopic forum if you haven't noticed :roll:

    It takes me a couple seconds to load a picture off my hard drive into photoshop, let alone search the internet, run a few algorithms to find similar content, import the image to the software, then run a few more algorithms to stretch/skew/zoom the image to get it to line up right. I'm guessing that computer is rediculous top of the line unit with a retarded ammount of ram, and the images in question already loaded up with all alignment algorithms already executed. The idea of having this be useful real-time over the internet seems like a huuuge stretch for current technology.

    However! I do think it would be a great idea for search engines like google to use a similar algorithm on the image search. Say you search for whatever, you get a zillion results, a bunch of the results are completely wrong, but one is correct, but you want a higher resolution shot... Have a link next to the thumbnail that says "find similar" or something like that. So instead of spending ten minutes clicking through page after page of wrong results, you can cut right down to the ones that are similar.

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