Panoramas gone digital

I was slightly ashamed after my usual messing around with constructed panoramas on holiday, when a friend said he’d been doing the same and gave me this link:

http://photosynth.net/view.aspx?cid=02dbdd97-6cea-4bf9-8594-3a5369e7e585

If you’ve never seen photosynth it’s an awfully clever bit of software owned by Microsoft which calculates where views are in 3D space based on what it sees in the photos.  It’s really impressive when you see it do things like ransack Flickr for loads of pictures of the same place and stitch them all together.

It’s not new, but I thought I’d share my shame at not being “digital” enough to clock that I could have done all my panoramas like this.

Not seen it being used much for product viewing, but having spent the last 5 years working out innovative ways to rotate a football boot in 3D in a way that’s not been done before (for Umbro) then it’s got to be on the cards..

Digital Photography Fun

Hey.  I’m on holiday at the moment.  In between holidays in fact.  I just got back from a short break in Paris and am off to the North East tomorrow.  So here, just for fun, is some digital photography shinanigans from La France.

First up a couple of panaramas:

180 vista over Paris from the Sacre Coeur

View from Sacre Coeur

and 360 of the Rubens room in the Louvre

Rubens Room, Le Louvre

and finally a shot from inside that Louvre that was crying out to be turned into one of those fake models using a technique which gives the photo a false small depth of field.

I am not a model