[Air-L] Photosynth and Flickr utilization

[Conor Schaefer]

I haven't seen this posted to the list yet, but forgive me if it's 
redundant.

Microsoft has acquired a company working on photo compositing and seems 
to be leveraging the software to step into graphic production in a big 
way. In a video demonstration, the model they used pulled thousands of 
pictures of Notre Dame off of Flickr and computationally arranged them 
into a cohesive whole with three dimensions.

I have a lot of thoughts on the implications of this technology, as well 
as on its apparent limitations, but I wanted to table it for the list 
and see what you all had to say.

Here's the link to a video of the presentation on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-DqZ8jAmv0

And it kills me to provide this, but in the interest of full disclosure, 
here's the official Microsoft page on Photosynth:

http://labs.live.com/photosynth/

I don't run Windows, so I have not seen the official Microsoft demo.

Conor