One of the most impressive pieces of flashy technology...

by **Champ** on Fri Jun 08, 2007 2:10 pm

I have ever seen:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-DqZ8jAmv0[/youtube]

It can take a dump of photographs linked together by tiny pieces of metadata, and by analyzing the photos, construct a spatial definition for the objects shown across all the photos WITHOUT a person connecting each photo to a point in space. The algorithm is basically assembling a massive three dimensional jigsaw puzzle out of a jumble of pictures.

So if you had enough people taking pictures of a city, or a carshow, or a house, or whatever... it will have enough datapoints to reconstruct that space and let you walk through it using photographs.

These are also the people that demo'd a multi touch screen last year. Might seem familiar, but these guys are not microsoft.
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/65

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by **Champ** on Sat Jun 09, 2007 1:59 am

123 views and I'm the only one who thinks this is amazing or what?!?!?

by **UofMLaxGoalie11** on Sat Jun 09, 2007 4:39 am

Shut up nerd! Gimme your lunch money!

Really and truly this is amazing. Its incredible that all that information can be linked together and 3-D models can be put together from a collection of photos like that. That and the ad in the corner of that paper. Once personal portable computers (tablets or the like) become more powerful and practical I think that could be the way we get most our information, ie. replacing newspapers or magazines.