“Rome wasn’t built in a day, but in cyberspace it might be.”
The article from The New York Times discusses the endeavors of computer science researchers from University of Washington and Cornell University. Basically, through collaboration, they are working on a graphics algorithm to build ”three-dimensional renderings of buildings, neighborhoods and potentially even entire cities.”
It’s called Photocity; it develops a set of algorithms that generats three-dimensional models from unstructured collections of two-dimensional photos.
“The original project was dubbed Photo Tourism and it has since been commercialized asMicrosoft’s Photosynth service, making it possible for users to upload collections of photos that can then be viewed in a quasi three-dimensional montage with a Web browser.”
This is certainly quite amazing because it’s using programming to design structures such as buildings. It’s kind of beautiful seeing the structure of the 3D modeling and it reminds me of what we will be working with in our next project.
(image via: The New York Times)
(article via: The New York Times)
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I think people are looking forgetting the reason to travel. I think it would be cool to have a 3D model of famous landmarks, but I would rather experience it.
Comment by incorrectdata March 15, 2010 @ 12:48 am