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Building Rome in a Day: Animated 3D model city built from Flickr

The University of Washington’s Department of Computer Science and Engineering has reconstructed Rome in a day.

By harvesting thousands of images from the web and then matching common points in the photos, they were able to compute 3-D visualizations.  All in the span of 24 hours.  I am vastly oversimplifying, so check out Digital Urban’s write up and visit the project page for more video and information.

(The video above is sample work utilizing 58,000 images of Dubrovnik from Flickr.)