So, feeling somewhat uninspired by today’s reading, I decided to cruise through TedTalks and search “most jaw-dropping”. By accident, I stumbled upon some things that we have discussed multiple times in class, specifically hyperlinks and Flikr. Photosynth, a Microsoft creation, uses various pictures found all over the internet and merges them into one picture with depth and detail. (If anyone remembers the photo from the Inaugeration, it used Photosynth) In the example used in the video, an entire, detailed 3D model of Notre Dame was constructed from Flikr photo images. In another, the view could take in a 3D panorama of a cliffside, almost as if one was standing in the middle and turning around to see everything. The beauty of Photosynth is that it can take various images and create a network of hyperlinks from image to image to create a network of photos. One could, for example, tag the various saints carved into the Notre Dame. In turn, each person on Flikr whose photo was used to create the 3D Notre Dame will also have those tags on their photo. They can then tag things on their photos that will link back to other users and so on and so on. The video was aptly rated as one of the most jaw-dropping.
The Photosynth
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Oh cool, I didn’t know they were using it on locations other than the Inauguration already. It’s cool I guess, after reading a description of it though I was pretty underwhelmed by what it actually is, to be honest, as from what I’ve seen it doesn’t generate any actual 3D data, just calculates the location from which an image was taken so that users can (sort of) move around it. Maybe it would have been cooler if I hadn’t read about it a few days before the inauguration, formed a picture of how it worked, and had the actual result be slightly less impressive than what I had imagined it to be.