Government Technology - November 2007 - (Page 28) Photosynth Close Someone surfing the Internet can now glimpse what it might be like to stand in Venice’s Piazza San Marco, shown here, the Piazza San Píetro in Rome or the Gyeongbokgung in South Korea. How? Photosynth — an application from Microsoft Live Labs — takes a large collection of photographs of a specific location or object and analyzes them for similarities. It then displays the images in a 3-D venue. You can even get a 3-D view of the Space Shuttle Endeavor on Launch Pad 39A, as well as other collections, thanks to a collaboration between Microsoft’s Live Labs team in Seattle; NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla.; and NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley. Users can zoom in and out of a location’s 3-D rendition, fly around it, and see which specific images were used to form the 3-D interpretation. Though individuals can’t yet “photosynthesize” their own images, Microsoft Live Labs has plans for that in the future. Up j 28
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