So, today I found this thing that was posted on Slashdot about Microsoft's new product that just got moved from "tech preview" status today called "Photosynth". It looked like a really cool idea so I immediately downloaded it to play with it a bit and I have to say, it's some pretty freakin sweet technology. The basic idea is that you take a bunch of pictures of either an object or a scene, as if you were making a panorama, but then you move around and keep taking pictures. Then you take all those pictures and load them into photosynth which then sorts through them all and aligns them to make a 3D model based on your pictures. It's not perfect yet as it's still a bit choppy and sluggish in the browser when you view someone else's "Synth" but it's a really neat concept and it works really well from what I can tell so far. I have yet to make my own "synth" yet though so I can't speak for that part, but it looks like it works really well from what has already been uploaded to their site.
Check it out for yourself <a href=http://www.photosynth.net target="_blank">by clicking here</a> and make sure to come back here to post your own thoughts on this program. I'll be posting again once I have my own synth uploaded and I can talk a bit more about the program functionality then.
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