[LINK] Demo of photosynth

[Rick Welykochy]

Kim Holburn wrote:

> http://www.devilducky.com/media/62817/
> 
> Video demo of Seadragon and photosynth including a reproduction of Notre 
> Dame cathedral, constructed entirely, digitally, from photos got from a 
> Flickr search.
> 
> Pretty nice.

Bloody amazing!

I found it hard to grasp the concept that the only display/interaction
overhead is the number of pixels on the screen. Surely there is a lot
of overhead going on in the background. The entire contents of Bleak
House for example require a scalable vector rendering of the text to
be stored *somehwhere*. That is a much higher overhead than storing
the text in ASCII.

One has to ask: does a non-innovator and market debasement like
Mickeysoft *deserve* to acquire technology like this. I can
understand the speaker's apparent dischord with working at Microsoft
but at the same time receiving an appreciative applause from a
geek-filled audience.


cheers
rick



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