Photosynth

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   January 21, 2012

   Nate Lawrence

   Hi there, Paul,

   You say above that you don’t have the processing power to complete a 360 panorama. I just wanted to ask if you had tried closing all other apps before trying to stitch a full panorama.

   Running out of RAM because you’ve got other apps open is the most common thing stopping people from completing their panorama’s stitching.

   This is the first entry of yours that I’ve read, so I don’t know whether you’re an all Mac kind of guy or not, but if you’ve got access to a Windows computer, Microsoft also makes a more powerful version of their panorama stitcher, called Microsoft ICE http://bit.ly/microsoftice

   It will be able to stitch full resolution shots into a panorama and if you happen to also have the free Photosynth app for Windows installed http://photosynth.net/create.aspx then uploading your ICE panoramas to photosynth.net is really straight-forward.

   …

   You may ask yourself what Photosynth’s original app for Windows does if it doesn’t make panoramas and the answer is that it creates photosynths.

   The primary differences to me between panoramas and photosynths is that panoramas only work well if you don’t move your camera’s lens/imaging-sensor http://bit.ly/howtopano whereas a photosynth positively begs you to keep looking at a particular subject as you change positions around it, toward it, away from it, etc.

   A panorama attempts to fuse all the photos into a single chunk of photography, but a photosynth simply organizes the different 2D shots in 3D space, so you end up with a sort of 3D collage or 3D slideshow as well as a sparse point cloud model of whatever it was you were shooting, which a panorama can never give you.

   You may want to keep your ear to the ground for news of the Read/Write World project http://bit.ly/readwriteworld over at Bing Maps as their aim is to link together all Bing Maps imagery with photosynths, panoramas, spin movies http://bit.ly/spinmovies , videos, etc. as if the entire Earth were one large photosynth, which ought to be pretty awesome.

   Wishing you well,
   Your fellow panner + photosynther,
   .nl
2. 

   January 21, 2012

   Paul Barlow

   Good point – yeah if I close all the other apps it does manage to chug through it. I’m 90% Mac – but there is an old PC in the hose (probably has less processing power than my ipod) so i might have a go at that…

   I’ve been very impressed by the ease of the app and, as I said above I really enjoy the imperfections. Just taken a look at your stuff – evidently I’m only scratching the surface of what this can do – I look forward to the entire earth being photosynthed!

   All the best
   paul

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