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This is incredible

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/blai ... synth.html
Blaise Aguera y Arcas leads a dazzling demo of Photosynth, software that could transform the way we look at digital images. Using still photos culled from the Web, Photosynth builds breathtaking dreamscapes and lets us navigate them.


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Despite the dude being on WAY too much coffee, that really is a trip. I just wonder how much prep they put into it versus it automatically assembling the images. Also wondering how quickly the novelty effect will wear off. I'm further skeptical that the video is over a year and half old, and we haven't seen the Microsofties do jack shit with it yet.

Pretty amazing ... despite the "wow factor" of the merging of similar images together in a pseudo-3D mosaic-like fashion, I'm more impressed with the "duh factor" practicality of the unrestricted zoom and its potential applications for virtual books, magazines, newspapers, personal photo books, etc.

Can you imagine how that software could reconstruct concerts for us? I love the TED site. I spend hours there sometimes. Can you imagine a hybrid of Photosynth with this 3D texture mapping software?

http://www.polygon-playground.com/

Federation holodeck technology wouldn't be that far behind [;)]

edit: Here's a hi-rez movie of the software in action:
http://www.polygon-playground.com/movie ... ground.mov