tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7961660238450693245.post5979990954441866303..comments2009-02-18T22:53:18.904ZSlimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02020308502156946280noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7961660238450693245.post-68756365055969819572008-08-25T13:43:00.000+01:002008-08-25T13:43:00.000+01:00<br>Hmm, having looked at some of the examples on the photosynth site, I'm less enthused about about this than I was. The technology is definitely very impressive, I just can't really see a use for it. I think a big part of the problem is that the public seem to be completely missing the point - uploading pictures of their kids moving around, for example. Photosynth seems to be well suited to static scenes - rooms, or buildings. Anything that moves or has a narrative is not going to work very well.<br><br>I suppose it needs padding out somewhat - the ability to annotate scenes would be very useful, being able to tag interesting items or features to zoom into. Also, the ability to take pictures from multiple sources and automatically incorporate these into the scene.<br>DrDavenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7961660238450693245.post-71376925680125387172008-08-25T13:05:00.000+01:002008-08-25T13:05:00.000+01:00<br>Very cool stuff!<br><br>I had a play around with it this morning. My first attempt turned out with a disappointing 7% synthy value. This was only 50 photos though, and I think I put too much thought into them. So I cast off the usual digicam way of thinking, turned off the image preview on the camera and just went snap crazy, taking 250+ random photos of absolutely everything in the room.<br><br>Here's the results: <a href="http://photosynth.net/view.aspx?cid=37F076BC-2851-4C00-8BEA-A7107AF63114">Conservatory</a>.<br><br>75% synthy and very impressive. Incidentally, this took about two hours to render on an EEE 901 Atom processor. Ugh.<br><br> <br><br> <br>DrDavenoreply@blogger.com