The Microsoft Photosynth is a very powerful software that allows you to take a bunch of photos of the same scene or object and automagically stitch them all together into one big interactive 3D viewing experience that you can share with anyone on the web.
Photosynth is really two remarkable technical achievements in one product: a viewer for downloading and navigating complex visual spaces and a “synther” for creating them in the first place. Together they make something that seems impossible quite possible: reconstructing the 3D world from flat photographs.
Using techniques from the field of computer vision, Photosynth examines images for similarities to each other and uses that information to estimate the shape of the subject and the vantage point each photo was taken from. With this information, Photosynth recreates the space and use it as a canvas to display and navigate through the photos.Microsoft also uses a very powerful technology called the Seadragon which allows us to browse through dozens of 5, 10, or 100 megapixel photos effortlessly, without fiddling with a bunch of thumbnails and waiting around for everything to load.
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