Photosynth - an interesting possibility
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I've just happened on this new app: "Photosynth". It creates "fake" 3D-ish environments from dozens"hundreds of photos or possibly from 2D SU output images?
Needs a plugin however and from the comments in this blog entry (as it is a MS lab product) it seems that they have forgotten about the fact that not everyone uses MS Windows.
Also, while I'm writing these lines, the site seems to have become unavailable...
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Gaieus, you are getting old. Take a look at this thread for photosynth on 'roids.
A solution like that would work famously well with SU! I shudder to thing of the amount of exported images required to be able to build a VR environment. Something like that is worth a look into and creating a plugin for SU.
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Id be all for someone writing an exporter for this as well. I dont think the number of images would be too bad really, it wouldnt be much more than a short animation anyway.
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Yes, it looks interest alright. If you watch the intro video
presented by the young lady you will note that plain colours
or white are NOT a good idea ..... so textures or photo textures
are the way to go
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Just a little heads up, the sites back up, and you can create your own synths (as they call them) here: http://photosynth.net/learn.aspx
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Well i had a go at it (using an SU model
) and its really frustrating. You ahve to upload the whole thing to an external server, it slows the whole thing down a lot. I really hope they release a stand alone synth maker thingy, it might then join the unsurprisingly short list of good bits of windows software. I really hope microsoft doesnt screw this up. -
This would be really interesting if someone could figure out how to get the point cloud data into skechup. Almost a poor mans lidar.
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http://www.informationweek.com/news/services/hosted_apps/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=210200469
Seems everyone wants to use it! They would probably charge a ridiculous price for this if they sold it as a stand alone package...
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