karl shah-jenner wrote:
http://www.wired.com/software/coolapps/news/2007/06/vr_conference
"The most impressive demonstration at Sunday's IVRPC seminar was Photosynth
from Microsoft Live Labs -- a program that constructs large-scale, 3-D
models of objects like buildings from hundreds of still photographs"
"Photosynth uses a visual algorithm to scan through hundreds of images,
hunting for distinctive features. After identifying features common to
different pictures -- doors, windows and sculptures -- the program links
the photos together and calculates the 3-D position of each picture"
Though it requires either of my least favourite operating systems though so
I guess I'll not be playing with it :/
It is kind of cool, on their pre-packaged collections. I hope they
release enough to let us make our own collections at some point; I can't
tell how powerful the prep software is. The display is nice enough,
smooth, pretty, nice interface.
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