{"id":12,"date":"2007-04-04T21:26:18","date_gmt":"2007-04-05T01:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/2007\/04\/virtual-tours-with-photosynth\/"},"modified":"2016-02-06T11:32:08","modified_gmt":"2016-02-06T15:32:08","slug":"virtual-tours-with-photosynth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/2007\/04\/virtual-tours-with-photosynth\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtual Tours with Photosynth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/labs.live.com\/photosynth\/\">Photosynth<\/a> is a Microsoft technology preview that creates 3D spaces from a bunch of photographs of the same place. Here\u2019s a screenshot of the application in the space it\u2019s constructed from dozens of photographs of the Piazza San Marco in Venice:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/a.openbible.info\/blog\/2007-04-photosynth.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"241\" alt=\"A 3D space showing a photograph of the tower with pointillistic representations of the rest of the piazza. \" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the <a href=\"http:\/\/labs.live.com\/photosynth\/sysreq.htm?collection=sanmarco\/index1.sxs\">live application<\/a> you can move around and highlight different photos taken from all sorts of angles. Check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IgBQCoEfiMs\">screencast<\/a> if you\u2019re hesitant about installing an ActiveX control on your computer.<\/p>\n<p>I can see using this technology to reconstruct highly photographed places like Jerusalem in 3D. It\u2019s not quite as good as building your own <a href=\"http:\/\/archpark.org.il\/panorama1.asp\">virtual-reality model of Jerusalem<\/a>, but it\u2019s a lot easier. Consider that flickr has about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/search\/?q=jerusalem&amp;l=deriv&amp;s=int\">9200 photos tagged \u201cJerusalem\u201d<\/a> under a Creative Commons license, and you can imagine the possibilities.<\/p>\n<p>I look forward to being able to upload your own (or others\u2019) photos and have the application create a space for you. Right now you can only use predefined photo collections.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalmediaminute.com\/article\/2482\/microsoft-photosynth-screencast\/\">Digital Media Minute<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photosynth is a Microsoft technology preview that creates 3D spaces from a bunch of photographs of the same place. Here\u2019s a screenshot of the application in the space it\u2019s constructed from dozens of photographs of the Piazza San Marco in Venice: In the live application you can move around and highlight different photos taken from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1219,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions\/1219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}