[X] My Assistant

[lyford]

Well, not purchase but you can try the source code:

http://phototour.cs.washington.edu/bundler/

[stevesliva]

An interesting footnote to the discussion about MS's research interests is that the presentation was hosted on YouTube, a Google property, and used source images from Flickr, a Yahoo property. And the closest thing I've seen in a production environment is Google Maps Street View. Seems like simply a neat program, until I realized I've used Street View in real life a few times. It would be interesting to see the cloud of photos/videos already hosted online merged with Street View, so that when you go to a famous location, like Times Square, you get a very intricate environment to navigate. It's too bad the location and time metadata for most photos would be imprecise.

[DEChengst]

Photosynth has gone live:

http://photosynth.net/

[um3k]

Anyone else here using Photosynth? Here's my gallery: http://photosynth.net/userprofilepage.aspx?user=um3k

[CosmicRocker]

um3k: I've been experimenting with it, too. I deleted some of my worst disasters which involved planetary images from various flybys. Here's my gallery.

http://photosynth.net/userprofilepage.aspx?user=rockhound

[ElkGroveDan]

I really like the "rock pile" CR.

As soon as I find some time this week, I'm going to give it a try.

[charborob]

No luck! Photosynth doesn't work on a Mac.

[ElkGroveDan]

OK I gave it a whack from my summer vacation photos:

http://photosynth.net/view.aspx?cid=DF020D...87-1767C6AA8333

[imipak]

I realise that part of what us poor deluded non-Windows users are missing out on here is the interactivity, but does anyone know if there's a way to export the results from Photosynth into a video format such as mpeg4 (or even, heaven forfend, Flash)? Perhaps a screen-capture movie?

[CosmicRocker]

Thanks, EGD. I was unimpressed with some of my early rover image results, so I made and photographed the rock pile to convince myself that I knew how Photosynth was supposed to work. As it turned out, I should have taken a few more photos of the back side of the pile to get a 100% "synthy" score. I was kind of hoping that identification of some of the rocks in the pile might encourage other geologists to comment.

Your Brooklyn Bridge synth was very good. It almost appears as if you took those images to feed the Photosynth engine. Nice work, indeed, even if you were not thinking of it at the time.

[ilbasso]

Wow, intriguing and very cool application, especially for freeware. I put up a test of my office.

[CosmicRocker]

I got some great pictures of the two barges stranded on the four-lane highway nearby, by Hurricane Ike. I thought Photosynth would match the images better than it did, but it's not bad. I think the best way to view it is to hit the "play button" and just watch it. I used 35 pictures. It created seven 3D models, and wasn't able to use 4 images. I think you'll get a good idea of what it was like walking around the barges. If you don't like the Photosynth view, you can just look at the individual images.

http://photosynth.net/view.aspx?cid=05415B...C3-C24D857EAFD7