New Tools for High-Res Images and Spatial Mapping
2008 March 13
One of Simon’s earlier posts reminded me to pick up the latest issue of Technology Review. In it, there’s a piece on two new image-handling technologies — Photosynth and Seadragon — both of which now fall under the Microsoft umbrella. Photosynth enables smooth, seamless visual navigation of high-resolution imagery, and Seadragon generates 3-D composites out of ordinary two-dimensional photographs. Yeah, I know that doesn’t make sense, but it’s true. You should just watch the 7-minute demo.
Cool video Scott. When I worked in accident reconstruction we used to use software called PhotoModeler to recreate 3D space from 2D photographs using process called photogrammetry. It looks like this Photosynth/Seadragon uses a an algorithm that makes this a real time process. Very cool.
Comment by jason — 2008 March 15 @ 8:25 am