I’ve just watched an staggering video display of two hip digital media technologies codenamed Photosynth and Seadragon (both recently acquired by Microsoft). Seadragon is a slick and and powerful viewing approach on what the presenter calls “multi-scale mediums”. That is, viewing media with both jumbo and small details like a newspaper (headlines vs. good phrasing) or photographs (entire galleries vs. details of a cull photo).

Photosynth is much more compelling as it can aggregate images of a single subservient to from various sources (all photos on Flickr tagged “Notre Dame” in the example) and combine them into a new, richer intent of the ecosystem that is more valuable than the totality of the individual photos individually. The description doesn’t do it justice. You really distress to take note of the video to interpret what is going on here.

The presenter concludes by talking far how we randomly induce the technology to create “immensely bountiful virtual models of every interesting part of the earth collected not reasonable from operating costs flights and from satellite images and so on but from the collective thought.” Simply amazing.

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