[Web4lib] Obama and the Checkerboard Buddha

[Tim Spalding]

If you're interested in Photosynth, check out the TED talk with Blaise
Aguera y Arcas zooming in and around Notre Dame, a 3D model emerging
from thousands of casual snapshots.

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/blaise_aguera_y_arcas_demos_photosynth.html

The larger message is the now familiar idea of collective, networked
metadata arising from individual action:

"We can do things with the social environment--this is now taking data
from everybody, from the entire collective memory of what the earth
looks like--and link all that together... and they make something
emergent, something that is greater than the parts. ... And this is
something that grows in complexity as people use it and whose benefits
get greater as people use it."

Tim

On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Brian Gray <mindspiral at gmail.com> wrote:
> Downside to applications like this is we keep forcing users to have to
> install more plugins.
>
> Brian Gray
> mindspiral at gmail.com
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>
> On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Robert Balliot <rballiot at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On January 20, 2009 CNN IReporters will collaborate at the inaguration of
>> Barack Hussein Obama to create a first of its kind immersive experience.
>> They will use the new software from Microsofts Live Labs - Photosynth - to
>> create a 3D panorama at the moment Barack Obama is sworn in to become our
>> 44th President. Photosynth shows great promise in creating an unique user
>> experience. *Checkerboard Buddha on the Rocks* was Photosynthed with 103
>> images from a Canon ELPH. Use the expand view to go to full-screen. Immerse
>> yourself in the Buddha by pressing the character *p* on your keyboard and
>> finding your inner doughnut:
>> http://oceanstatelibrarian.com/#research
>>
>> Envision what you can do.
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