So there is a new photograph based technology around: the photo synth. Currently it is not available for private use, although CNN recently got their hands on it. Photo synth essentially takes various photos and stitches them together. This technology is much like the panorama shot which is available on most digital cameras; however, you don’t need to line up the pictures as well. If you misalign a digital camera shot the picture can be botched fairly easily. This photo synth can also meld photos from different cameras together.
In fact it can meld hundreds of photos together if put to the task. However, in order to attempt this, a place where hundreds of people were was needed. How about 2.8 million? CNN tried to conduct a large scale experiment on January 20th, 2009 while President Obama was being sworn in. When Obama put his hand on the bible people were supposed to all take a picture and then send that picture into CNN. Photo synth is a computer program that you load pictures into and then it finds the common ground in between them and turns them into a navigable space, a 3d world. As time allows they have been building and building this virtual space. All of the photos are seamless. While navigability could be improved, it is quite intriguing.
The “photo” can be viewed here: http://photosynth.net/inauguration.aspx
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What a fun link and experience! Thanks for sharing it. My IE browser is older, but it worked fine. When this technology improves, I will not have to travel to see the wonders of the world. I can just visit them my home computer.
ReplyDeleteIt seems like photosynth is just a slide show. Am I doing something wrong? I don't see the panorama/stitched together aspect.
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