Comments on: Crowdsourcing photosynth http://electronicmuseum.org.uk/2009/01/31/crowd-sourcing-photosynth/ musings about electronic culture Mon, 09 Jan 2012 14:02:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Mike http://electronicmuseum.org.uk/2009/01/31/crowd-sourcing-photosynth/#comment-8896 Mon, 17 May 2010 07:45:27 +0000 http://electronicmuseum.org.uk/?p=410#comment-8896 @Kevin – thanks for commenting. I haven’t noticed any recent updates to Photosynth such as being able to tag or label photos in the synths, but I may have missed it. In terms of adding more pictures, again, not sure.

If you’re interested in panoramas or hi-res stuff, check out the latest on http://www.gigapan.org

]]> By: Mused http://electronicmuseum.org.uk/2009/01/31/crowd-sourcing-photosynth/#comment-8884 Thu, 13 May 2010 00:52:33 +0000 http://electronicmuseum.org.uk/?p=410#comment-8884 Wow, I just came across this post. That’s truly fantastic. I’ve used PhotoSynth, but I’ve never imported my own content. Has this improved at all?

Is there any way you can have it generate a solid higher pixelcount photo? I’d love to be able to take a lot of photos, and have them spliced together perfectly, similar to creating panoramas. But it seems to me that PhotoSynth might actually do a better job since it doesn’t limit itself to left+right, or up+down, but actually in all directions.

Would love to hear about some success stories…

-Kevin

]]> By: Shelley http://electronicmuseum.org.uk/2009/01/31/crowd-sourcing-photosynth/#comment-7925 Sun, 31 May 2009 19:36:19 +0000 http://electronicmuseum.org.uk/?p=410#comment-7925 Hi Mike,

Just noticed this – we did an experiment at Brooklyn back in october:
http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/community/blogosphere/bloggers/2008/10/17/what-does-it-take-to-photosynth-the-brooklyn-museum/#more-321

]]> By: Mike http://electronicmuseum.org.uk/2009/01/31/crowd-sourcing-photosynth/#comment-7876 Wed, 06 May 2009 15:17:48 +0000 http://electronicmuseum.org.uk/?p=410#comment-7876 Mark, cheers for that. That’s a really nice improvement, especially for galleries and museums. Thanks for getting in touch.

]]> By: Mark http://electronicmuseum.org.uk/2009/01/31/crowd-sourcing-photosynth/#comment-7873 Mon, 04 May 2009 05:14:08 +0000 http://electronicmuseum.org.uk/?p=410#comment-7873 Hi – we recently updated the site, now the view page uses a Silverlight version of the viewer which will allow more people to view synths (also mac users) as long as they have Silverlight installed. We also just added a highlight feature so that you can allow people to easily navigate to specific photos in the synth, they are really easy to add to your synths (when you are logged in go to view your synth and you will see an edit button that lets you add highlight), see this synth for an example of how it can be used: http://photosynth.net/view.aspx?cid=a21a3223-bc84-4988-af67-161035355b66

]]> By: Alain Depocas . com » Blog Archive » Photographie augmentée : Photosynth http://electronicmuseum.org.uk/2009/01/31/crowd-sourcing-photosynth/#comment-7856 Sat, 18 Apr 2009 18:51:31 +0000 http://electronicmuseum.org.uk/?p=410#comment-7856 [...] de l’objet plus riche que celle proposée par chaque image prise individuellement. Voir ce billet sur le blog de Mike Ellis pour plus de [...]

]]> By: Mike http://electronicmuseum.org.uk/2009/01/31/crowd-sourcing-photosynth/#comment-7667 Sun, 01 Feb 2009 14:27:49 +0000 http://electronicmuseum.org.uk/?p=410#comment-7667 Yeah, I agree that Photosynth atm isn’t ready for mainstream use (big plugin size, not much penetration) – that’s why I suggested it would be good on-gallery.

Just had a quick poke around thinking there might be a converter from Photosynth (and now Silverlight, I see on my Mac..) to Flash. There isn’t such a thing and not knowing much about the underlying technology, may never be.

A Flash stitcher would be nice. This would obviously not be exactly Open Source, but with big enough penetration to make that immaterial (IMO, anyway..)

]]> By: Mia http://electronicmuseum.org.uk/2009/01/31/crowd-sourcing-photosynth/#comment-7666 Sun, 01 Feb 2009 12:22:24 +0000 http://electronicmuseum.org.uk/?p=410#comment-7666 We were thinking of using something like Photosynth for some iconic objects in time for the Science Museum’s centenary, but the plug-in and platform requirements (and limited resources) meant it would be of limited use. Crowd-sourcing might help cos we wouldn’t need to invest resources and could be fun for those that can view it, but I’d probably still rather find a platform-neutral solution as a permanent thing.

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