September 18, 2009 · Print This Article
What was Archimedes famous quote? “Give me a place to stand to take enough photos and I can map the world” no but he might have
University of Washington’s Graphics and Imaging Laboratory, the researchers who built a lot of the code that went into the original Microsoft Photosynth software, have devised new algorithms that take the existing ability to create a rough 3d map from multiple photos up by a order of magnitude. Now it not only can do basic depth perception and skinning with photos but create pinpoint 3d skeletons if given enough data to pull from. The uses and implications of this are vast.
We just need to use the v1.0 and start rendering gallery openings in 3d