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Photosynth

 
 
Olulabelle
08:21 / 15.06.07
I've just watched a video of a demo of Photosynth. It's quite breathtaking. Well it was for me anyway, so I thought I'd share. I also thought what a wonderful tool it will be for artists, and for comic book designers.

Go and have a look.
 
 
Spaniel
08:25 / 15.06.07
More information please
 
 
Olulabelle
08:30 / 15.06.07
Well like what Boboss? I've linked to the thing so that you can watch the demo like I did. I'm not really a very sciencey person so I can't tell you how it works. I just thought you might like to see it too. That's why I posted in conversation and not lab.
 
 
Spaniel
08:59 / 15.06.07
That was unnecessarily terse - sorry about that. Ignore the tetchy Boboss, it's the best way. I know I try to.

As you say, this is the Convo and not the lab, you're not required to write and essay about what you're linking to. That said, some of us (me) can't really watch demos while we're at work.
 
 
Olulabelle
09:05 / 15.06.07
Okay, well it's a beautiful application that lets you zoom in and out of images, a bit like Google Earth but whilst you're on the web. So it means that you could, for example, view a whole comic in one screen and zoom into each frame rather than having to click through each image to a new page. If you were a designer, you could create a huge picture and then people could zoom in to tiny pieces of it. Images of paintings in galleries could be uploaded and you can zoom into those and examine the paint marks.

One example they have in the demo is the whole of Bleak House on one screen, which you then zoom into to read page by page and finally right down to a single letter. There doesn't seem to be a quality issue either. It looks a bit like zooming into a vector graphic.

I just think it's amazing.
 
 
Spaniel
09:19 / 15.06.07
Sounds brilliant. Thanks.

Want to see demo.
 
 
Sibelian 2.0
09:21 / 15.06.07
Have looked, is dead brill.
 
 
MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!
09:41 / 15.06.07
I wish there was a bit more transparency about how many person-hours it took to do that thing with Notre Dame, though. I'm just as intrigued by the databasing/object-relation engine that must be behind this as I am by the really amazing zoom-and-rotate capabilities.
 
 
Quantum
09:51 / 15.06.07
Oooh, so many potential applications...
 
 
Happy Dave Has Left
13:17 / 15.06.07
Wow. That's pretty damn incredible.

Here's a live web preview of the tech on the web that you can play with
 
  
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