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

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

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 ...

Flickr Set from Multicolr Search Lab

Monday, December 1st, 2008

The mighty Signal vs. Noise (blog) just posted about Multicolr Search Lab: We extracted the colours from 10 million of the most ‘interesting’ Creative Commons images on Flickr. Using our visual similarity technology you can navigate the collection by colour. The above chooses three colors: red, white and black.  Ten is the ...

SmugMug Subscription? No

Monday, July 21st, 2008

One of the most download free applications for the iPhone is a photo sharer called SmugMug.  But I guess I missed the part where it says the service is trial only and now my trial ends in seven days.  Here's the email they sent: Dear dippold, Many thanks for giving SmugMug a ...