Wednesday, October 15, 2008
U-Blog 6
I recently came across a site called Photosynth.net. It is a site where anyone can take pictures of a place and upload them together. Doesn't sound that unique does it. Well, it is. Once the pictures are loaded, the site will read the meta data and examine the photos and the positions of the objects in the picture. What it does after that is pretty amazing. It creates a virtual 3D atmosphere of the place you visited, using your pictures. One person took pictures their trip to the Taj Mahal. You can view his photos and see what he saw, at all the places and positions he took the pictures. You can even walk up to the front and side of the beautiful building. I appologize if my explanation is too vague or hard to understand. Head over to the site to see first hand what I'm talking about. You will have to install the web app that allows you to view the 3D photo albums.
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Well, mentioning 3D is a great topic. I like that 3D is implemented in many ways, such as used for training in some car manufacturing and also in architectural designs.
I did one of my Blog Postings on PhotoSynth too, I think its a great piece of software thats easy to use as well. I uploaded some pictures of my room I took on my cell phone (the quality was pretty crappy) but the software did a great job I putting it all together. Your computer is actually the machine that analyzes the photos (it might take a while on a slower machine) then after the analysis is complete, it uploades the results to the web. I'll be interested to see how this software progresses over the coming years.
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