Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Your World in the Third Dimension

http://www.newsweek.com/id/154552

A new online software called Photosynth "is an ingenious new technology that gathers multiple photographs of one thing (a room, a house, a piece of furniture, a landscape), taken from multiple angles, and stitches them together into a three-dimensional panoramic quilt." With Photosynth, all a person has to do is take pictures with their digital camera, making sure there is overlap in each photo and upload it to the program. Since the program is able to recognize similarities in the photos, "photos that share features are synced together".

This revolutionary new technology is free. Now I am able to go on vacation or take pictures of my apartment, and show my entire family where I have been and what it looks like in a whole new format. My family can get the whole effect of being there without actually being physically present.

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