How I broke a world record and had fun doing it

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

Before this Bank Holiday weekend I was invited by Microsoft to a preview of Photosynth, a new way of combing pictures into a 3D world which is then hosted online. Photosynth also uses the ‘Deep Zoom’ technology which is in Sliverlight that I have written about in this month’s issue. The trick to creating a good ’synth’ is apparently to make sure that your photos overlap and also take photos of any detailed areas that you might what users to zoom in on.

Over the Bank Holiday weekend I attended the ‘NATS’ which is a huge gathering of modded cars, both American and old skool UK cars. I thought that this might be a great opportunity to try my efforts at making a Photosynth.

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