CogBlogged Tagged ‘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 [...]