cc licensed flickr photo shared by The Naughty Prata I barely watch anything on my home TV screen (I don’t get a signal nor any cable, so its for DVDs only), so I’m not quite up to speed on the latest technology for 3-D video but it is a technology we try and track for the NMC Horizon project. About the 3D film I’ve seen in the theaters was Avatar (saw it twice) and have to admit the 3D added something that grew better as you noticed it less, it was not like the gratuitous flyouts of shovels and guns that marked the cheesier and older 3d movies I saw longer ago. The current issue of Wired magazine (18.10) (I get the dead tree version in my mailbox, I am now a throwback) got my brain spinning a little bit simply from the Rants section. I cannot say why it [...]
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Stitching Photos to 3D: I Borked 49% Synthy with PhotoSynth
Photosynth was one of those “cool demos I saw and bookmarked for later” that I was recently nudged to go back and look at– this week I saw a very cool scene created by the folks at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. In a nutshell, PhotoSynth magically creates a navigable scene that lets you move through a 3D space made by stitching together photos of a place or object taken from different angles. Sure it is a Microsoft thingie and only works on Windows, but sometimes, a cool thing pushes one over their threshold. If you had not seen the demo from last year where Blaise Aguera y Arcas wowed the Ted-ites, it is worth a peek: I’ve had this interest in the last year with complex scenes rendered from photos, e.g. the nifty explorable stitched images created with the GigaPan… but the beauty of PhotoSynth should be it does [...]
