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Photosynth – New Overhead View and the du Carpark

Andy — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 09:38:00 +0000

We have been doing some photosynth work recently on an automatic workflow for 600+ image captures and upload – so far its working well and we will put up a post shortly, in the meantime photosynth now includes a new over head view, as the video below illustrates:

Photosynth Overhead View from Microsoft Photosynth on Vimeo.

Photosynth never got as much coverage here on du as it deserved, its only the last few weeks with the ability to mass record images and extract a mesh out of the system that it has grabbed out attention. For those who cant wait you can see the unflattering ‘du carpark‘ over on the main photosynth site. The main point to note is that is was automated and made in under 5 minutes.

We hope to capture something a little more interesting for the main post on the subject…

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Photosynth Point Export – Photosynth as a 3D Scanner?

Andy — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 09:17:00 +0000

Take a look at the movie below and make sure you watch it all the way through – note the export of the model from photosynth into a stand alone 3D package:

This opens up the possibility of using photosynth as a free 3D scanner, and one that would work on objects up to the building level scale. It seems to be early days but there is a lot of discussion going on around the tutorial here.

If anyone has any more insight do let us know via the comments…

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Photosynth Point Export – Photosynth as a 3D Scanner?

Andy — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 09:17:00 +0000

Take a look at the movie below and make sure you watch it all the way through – note the export of the model from photosynth into a stand alone 3D package:

If anyone has any more insight do let us know via the comments…

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Photosynth Now Integrated with Virtual Earth

Andy — Sat, 16 May 2009 13:07:00 +0000

We have been big fans of the Photosynth technology here at digital urban, it has huge potential for portraying the cityscape from the level of external architecture through to inside buildings and down to individual objects.

Microsoft have just launched Photosynths integration with Virtual Earth along with some tweaks to the interface, the slightly corporate and stumbled through video below provides details:

While it is still early days the example of the House Synth over at http://www.microsoft.com/virtualearth/ details the possibilities, now if they would just let us open the the resultant point cloud in application such as 3D Max….

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Photosynth Now Integrated with Virtual Earth

Andy — Sat, 16 May 2009 13:07:00 +0000

Microsoft have just launched Photosynths integration with Virtual Earth along with some tweaks to the interface, the slightly corporate and stumbled through video below provides details:

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Obama Photosynth Video: The Moment CNN

Andy — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 11:30:00 +0000

Microsofts Photosynth is without question a technology to watch and CNN have pushed it to a new level with their capture of the moment Barack Obama placed his hand on the bible and took the presidential oath of office.

Our movie below takes a quick tour around the resulting Photosynth:

Obama CNN The Moment Photosynth: The Inauguration from digitalurban on Vimeo.

You can view the Photosynth direct – Windows and Mac compatible – via the CNN page.

Its a really interesting visual capture of a moment in time using the crowd as a source of data.

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Obama Photosynth Video: The Moment CNN

Andy — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 11:30:00 +0000

Our movie below takes a quick tour around the resulting Photosynth:

Obama CNN The Moment Photosynth: The Inauguration from digitalurban on Vimeo.

You can view the Photosynth direct – Windows and Mac compatible – via the CNN page.

Its a really interesting visual capture of a moment in time using the crowd as a source of data.

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CNN Plans Obama Inauguration 3D Capture: Photosynth and Crowd Sourcing

Andy — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 17:24:00 +0000

Post update – video of the resulting Photosynth is now part of a new post here.

Microsofts Photosynth is without question a technology to watch and CNN are about to push it to a new level with their plans to capture a moment in time in 3D. The moment of capture is January 20th 12:00pm ET when Barack Obama places his hand on the bible and takes the presidential oath of office.

At that point if you are in the crowd CNN wants you to:

1. Take one photo of the moment when Obama takes the oath. If you have a digital camera with a zoom lens, take three photos (wide-angle, mid-zoom, full-zoom)

2. E-mail each photo as soon as possible to themoment@cnn.com (one photo per message, 10MB size limit). Don’t forget to include your name in the message if you’d like to appear in the list of the contributors. Please only send in photos you took yourself.

3. Go to cnn.com/themoment to see all of the photos in our photosynth

Its an intriguing idea to capture a moment in time in 3D using essentially crowd sourced images, we cant wait to see how it turns out.

Take a look at CNNs ‘The Moment‘ site for more information.

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The Making of Photosynth: Points, Lines and Polygons – Digital Architecture

Andy — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 08:00:00 +0000

The Making of Photosynth from Nathanael Lawrence on Vimeo.

The video above looks at the making of Photosynth, its informative and provides a glimpse of where Photosynth is going.

In truth we are simply at the beginning of being able to take crowd sourced or self taken imagery and automatically construct scenes, it is without question however an exciting beginning.

We have a feeling that in a few years time we will be explaining to our students that to create a 3D building we used to actually manually draw in the polygons, line by line, window by window and door by door.

We are close to it all becoming automatic and while we may miss the ‘hand made approach’ and indeed the argument is about to start that there will always be a role of ‘hand made’ digital architecture, we think its only a few years off becoming automated.

In the same way that Google Earth/Google Maps changed the field of GIS, the technologies behind Photosynth maybe about to change the world of architectural visualisation.

See also Can Photosynth Change The World Of Architecture? (we think it can btw…)

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