{"id":1688,"date":"2007-06-20T00:50:24","date_gmt":"2007-06-20T05:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=1688"},"modified":"2007-06-20T00:51:43","modified_gmt":"2007-06-20T05:51:43","slug":"microsoft-live-labs-photosynth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=1688","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Live Labs: Photosynth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/phototour-png.png\" title=\"Screen Image\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1690\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/phototour-png.thumbnail.png\" alt=\"Screen Image\" align=\"left\" vspace=\"5\" hspace=\"5\" \/><\/a>Microsoft is getting a lot of buzz for their preview of <a href=\"http:\/\/labs.live.com\/photosynth\/default.html\">Photosynth<\/a> which can analyze large collections of photos of a space (like St. Marks in Venice) and then reconstruct a 3-D space by stitching the photos. The 3-D space can be used to navigate the photos. Microsoft has a preview that runs on Windows XP SP2 and Vista. <\/p>\n<p>Photosynth is based on the work of U of Washington Computer Science Ph. D. student <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.washington.edu\/homes\/snavely\/\">Noah Snavely<\/a> and his advisors. He has a page on <a href=\"http:\/\/phototour.cs.washington.edu\/\">Photo tourism: Exploring photo collections in 3D<\/a> with a cool Java demo with datasets like the Trevi Fountain. <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/seadrag.png\" title=\"Screen Image\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1689\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/seadrag.thumbnail.png\" alt=\"Screen Image\" align=\"left\" vspace=\"5\" hspace=\"5\" \/><\/a> A related Microsoft technology demonstrated at TED is <a href=\"http:\/\/labs.live.com\/Seadragon.aspx\">Seadragon<\/a> which allows smooth scaling and transition of high resolution images so you can zooming can become navigation. See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/index.php\/talks\/view\/id\/129\">Blaise Aguera y Arcas: Jaw-dropping Photosynth demo (video)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Matt and others for pointing these out to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is getting a lot of buzz for their preview of Photosynth which can analyze large collections of photos of a space (like St. Marks in Venice) and then reconstruct a 3-D space by stitching the photos. The 3-D space can be used to navigate the photos. Microsoft has a preview that runs on Windows &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=1688\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Microsoft Live Labs: Photosynth<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,13,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-and-interactive-art","category-interface-design-and-usability","category-photographs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}