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Photosynth Gets a Little Competition
andres32a writes "Using existing open-source Structure From Motion Libraries and incorporating a WebGL pointcloud viewer, we have created a new website called 3dtubeme.com that allows users to create and share on the web amazing 3d models using virtually any digital camera. Point clouds are dramatically denser than Photosynth, and best of all... it works on any WebGL browser!"
...but web servers still can't handle the load of a minor Slashdotting even before a single comment is posted. Looks like you're doing it wrong.
Too late. The site is barely responding, and I can't even Coralize it.
We're putting load balancing right now. Should get bitter in a while.
until your website can handle the load. And it's not even a busy period.
/. - easiest DOS attack ever....
Seriously?
You want access to my personal facebook information just so I can view one of the existing uploads? Oh please.
Chrome thanks you for taking it out in a massive lag spike, though. I think this is one case where open-source went for greed and Microsoft went for "just works".
Anyone smell the burning plastic ?
(that said, ill have a look once the fire brigade leaves - sounds cool!)
There are already much better alternative to photosynth for free 3d reconstruction.
www.arc3d.be has a new prototype version online that gives you a complete dense and textured mesh.. no more sparse point clouds!
Still works.
...I hoped to hear about a breakthrough in artificial photosynthesis. How disappointing.
Nice useful post. Thank you.
Seems my iPad can handle your webGL project just fine.
21 comments and the site is already down.. not ready for prime time yet... or was this a test?
once more into the breach
"This really impressive thing MS did 3 years ago? We made a ripoff of it! And it doesn't work right now!"
Exciting news.
Comment of the year
One of the mirrors keeps asking for a Facebook account. I have a Facebook account but I'm not logging into it to view some random web site.
Really? Then how dare Microsoft build their own C compiler? What a ripoff!
And if it is done in WebGL and works reliably across a range of browsers, that is surely a Good Thing.
On the other hand, we can't really tell as indeed their website melted down.
So, they're bringing the site slowly back online, but to see anything beyond the front page they want to scrape and rape your facebook friends list. Ick.
I want to update you guys on the server issues we where getting traffic north of 10MB/s, we have started more servers and things seem to be able to take the massive data load right now. I will post here again to keep you updated. Whom posted comments about bad code and so on can think again, the data being loaded is fairly large so per request on the webpage is very large. I am not pointing any fingers here I am simply saying things seems to be up and running again.
Can only see the first picture, clicking on a new one prompts for a facebook log-in. wtf?
I wonder if they are using Web Workers? Distributing the work while people are visiting the web site would surely help speed up the processing and distribute the load. Nothing to do with the site being down, just a thought after I saw this page: http://blog.0x82.com/2010/11/22/map-crowd-reduce
Hint, does not work for my FF4 on Linux. And trying to click on any of the links gives me a facebook login page. Sick.
http://getsatisfaction.com/3dtubeme/topics/im_using_firefox_4_and_still_cant_see_a_3d_model_anywhere_what_should_i_do
Our servers are experience a huge amount of traffic. We will be back very shortly. Thank you for your patience.
Update: we are setting up new servers quick for handling load of traffic. We hope we can get things up and running very soon. Thanks again!
Update: Traffic has soared till 14 M/B second but we now have clones that are accesible at this point. The server balancing is kicking in now, meanwhile you can go to any of the following mirrors:
Thanks for your patience! We are working hard to keep things up in this traffic. (This kind of hit us by surprise)
However, I can only view one image... all the others require me to log into facebook and allow access to my personal info!! So... that ain't gonna happen.
What makes you think this will scrape your friends. You should have a little evidence before making claims like this.
Why else would you need to give them access to that information of they're not going to use it.
Making this thing a Facebook app is a giant slice of FAIL.
You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.
What's wrong with this site? It keeps trying to connect me to something called facebook.com. From what I've heard that is a highly malicious website.
I get this in the front page:
"Announcement: We will lift the facebook account verification for model viewing by monday. You guys are right: it's plain dumb. We are not trying to spam you! "
http://getsatisfaction.com/3dtubeme/topics/how_to_view_models_without_a_facebook_account
Hugin - Panorama photo stitcher
http://hugin.sourceforge.net/
apt-get install hugin
The fact that when I visited the site with facebook open in another tab it immediately asked me to allow it access to my friends list. Which (perhaps not here, to be honest) but usually, is just an invitation to the app to let them spam all my facebook friends with notifications. Something I refuse to do, having been on the wrong side of that far too frequently.
Its really funny reading a lot of the comments here, it seems like the experiment the site made worked 100%, it get some load tests done in the newly opened beta, it got a clear user testing.
Number one does indeed listen to their user base and will remove the Facebook requirement, has made a statement about it on the front page that it will go away. People then still bitch about it here that it requires Facebook, read the changes it will go away.
It did some load testing, what is required to spread this massive amount of RAW data across the web to a selected amount of users.
Got some people to start commenting on the product in the support forums what they would like to see changed. And it seems like the Facbook issues the creators are very open to suggestions, different to many web-services I have seen.
Think this experiment seems to have been successful.
Reading the comments here is as hilarious as any other web-based comments or forums. Always say the worst thing even if you dont know what is really behind.
I wish them luck with this project.
I don't use Facebook, so I won't use this either.