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3D Aerial Photos For the Common Man

Posted by samzenpus on from the personal-landscapes dept.

An anonymous reader writes "So you have a RC model aircraft snapping digital photos from the air, but how do you organize them all? This cheap cloud service from a European research giant will upload your photos and automatically convert them into 3D models you can navigate like a video game. And if you don't have a model aircraft, they got those on-the-cheap too. Let the overhead droning begin!"

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  1. If you want to do this, do it now by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This is so going to be made illegal when more people start taking high resolution pictures of their neighbors' swimming pools.

    1. Re:If you want to do this, do it now by Ethanol-fueled · · Score: 3, Insightful

      It's gonna be illegal anyway, because only a terrorist or pedophile would use the technology, probably to plan out the shortest paths to bomb government buildings or rape kids at the parks.

      Even worse, the so-called "hobbyist" could use the data to make a 3-D video game about bombing government buildings or raping kids and release it under that Marxist GPL license, which would inflame tensions in the Middle East and provoke Iran into destroying Israel.

  2. The real reason by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    >"I kinda put off actually making Artificial Intelligence in 2002 until someone makes a nice piece of software that you can walk around buildings and turn them into Quake levels."

    No you didn't. Hey, I put off flapping my arms and flying to the moon in 2002, because there wasn't a decent hotel there. Or maybe I'm talking shit. Certainly that's what I assume you are doing.

    You "put it off" because neither you nor anyone else actually knows how to do it.

    1. Re:The real reason by BitHive · · Score: 4, Insightful

      I think I can see why AI research doesn't pay your bills.