Photosynth Demo

A couple of days ago Microsoft labs released a demo of their new Photosynth software on the web. Photosynth allows the aggregation of social picture networks (a la Flickr) into a completed image in addition to allowing a level of depth to image browsing previously unavailable. There is also a very impressive video of the demo available.

Comments

Re:Huh?

[Timesprout]

Let me translate.

Pretty pictures.

Now that's a real summary!

[L. VeGas]

Photosynth allows the aggregation of social picture networks (a la Flickr) into a completed image in addition to allowing a level of depth to image browsing previously unavailable. Slashdot summary entices the accumulated aggravation of social comment communities (a la Digg) into a aggregated juxtaposition while interspersing levels of irritation heretofore unimaginable

Re:Interesting

[Otter]

In the interests of openness, would you mind publishing these calculations of yours? I'm sure we'd like to see your quantification of the open-source development process, particularly for software as complex as this evidently is.

• Day 0: Someone registers a project on Sourceforge, commits main.c to CVS.
• Day 3: It's noted on Digg, Reddit
• Day 30: Slashdot links to project, hails it as "the Photosynth killer", misspells project leader's name. Commenters gloat about M$'s lack of innovation, speculate on the throwing of chairs in Redmond, argue about atheism and gun control.
• Day 33: Slashdot dupes story, misspells "Photosynth", "killer" and "the".

We know you tried this at least once...

[jnaujok]

Clearly then, you'd be the one to ask... What happens when you enter "Jessica Alba" into Flickr and use photosynth?