Jeremy Charette
07-31-2006, 11:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.on10.net/Blogs/TheShow/4187/' target='_blank'>http://www.on10.net/Blogs/TheShow/4187/</a><br /><br /></div><i>"What if you could take all the pictures of a particular place on Flickr, taken at different angles, and without a 3D model, your computer could stitch the pictures together into a 3D, navigable model where you can zoom in or out, walk around and more?"</i><br /><br /> <img src="http://www.digitalmediathoughts.com/images/whatisgraphic1.jpg" /> <br /><br />Put a bunch of really bright people in a room, and it's amazing the things they'll think of. <a href="http://labs.live.com/photosynth/">Photosynth </a>is photo-stitching on steroids. Some of the samples they've come up with are absolutely incredible. The team talks about other potential applications on the website, like the ability to take a photo of something, and have your phone tell you what you're looking at, then link you to further information on that subject. The possibilities are mind-boggling.