Amazing! Integrating Photos From All Over The World
I found something in a newsletter that I read regularly that I just had to share. It’s about Microsoft’s Photosynth, which is based on Seadragon technology. Fancy words, but once you see the video you’ll understand the meaning behind them.
Basically, what this new technology will do is make all images on the Web — your’s, mine, everyone’s — connected to make a meaningful collection of data. So what hyperlinks have done for pages, so, too, will do for images.
For example, it can take photos of an object from several vantage points, taken by different people, and put them together to make one cohesive and three-dimensional and/or panoramic view; the more data, the better.
This video demonstrates lightning-fast mobility across numerous thumbnails of images, allowing you to zoom in at incredible levels. What appears to be a pixel can in actuality be a finely typed document. This is pretty cool!
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Brown Baron | Jul 18, 2007 | Reply
Great possibilities with this one. Hmm why am I sounding like Yoda?
Mark | Jul 18, 2007 | Reply
Not I know why.
Mike | Jul 18, 2007 | Reply
Interesting this one is
No loss of clarity when zooming in is quite amazing. It’s likes vector images, but not.
Benedict Herold | Jul 18, 2007 | Reply
Great find Mark. Microsoft seems to be researching in couple of good things lately
Mark | Jul 18, 2007 | Reply
Hey Benedict! Good to see you hear, buddy.
Yeah, I have to say that Microsoft really put their efforts into something very useful and cool here. Can’t wait to see it released.
Jos | Jul 19, 2007 | Reply
Hi Mark!
Yes, isn’t this amazing, if you think of all the emerging possibilities? Did you take a good look at the part where this guy demonstrates the real time overlay techniques with the Notre Dame church?–>>> Awesome!! I wrote about it a few months ago, I’d call this the most exciting demo I have seen in years.
Mark | Jul 19, 2007 | Reply
Hi Jos! Glad to see you stopped by. I took a look at your blog just moments ago. Had a chuckle with the gymnastic post. HA!
Indeed, it was a very good demo. The technology behind it boggles my mind, but it’s definitely breaking new ground.
Jos | Jul 20, 2007 | Reply
Hi Mark. Glad to see you stopped by as well. I’m changing this one of my blogs gradually over to English (so I hope it didn’t bother you too much that you probably couldn’t read a lot of it
I am also glad to see my above comment ‘made’ it: when I entered it last night (my timezone), I really got a lot of error messages while trying to reply; must have been some server issues. Anyway, I’ll be stopping by moreoften, & like your stuff.
Mark | Jul 20, 2007 | Reply
Thanks for the kind words, Jos. Weird about the errors you were experiencing. Please let me know if it continues.