Imagine a world where all the images available from digital and cell phone cameras as well as existing archived images are connected with a huge visual set of hyperlinks.
Microsoft's Photsynth technology (we have written about this months ago) is a marriage between this new technology and an awesome image viewing technology called Seadragon. Seadragon allows a viewer to literally dive into pictures to see the most minute details without any loss of resolution. The Seadragon technology, acquired by Microsoft, allows for seamless zooming and panning of images with no loss of resolution. They are able to accomplish this by very quickly delivering only the pixels shown on the computer screen at any given time, as opposed to trying to deliver all the pixels available for a particular subject.
Using photos of popular subjects (like Notre Dame) scraped from around the Web, Photosynth creates breathtaking multidimensional spaces with zoom and navigation features. Curious about that speck in corner? Dive into a freefall and watch as the speck becomes a gargoyle.
3Dwalkthroughs.com believes this technology will allow worldwide 3D Walkthroughs to be created based on the snapshots of the masses. The interesting part of this technology is that it only improves as time goes on and more pictures and metadata are added to the system. It is also available on mobile devices.
Check Out The Demo From The Programs Architect to get a better understanding of this awesome technology.
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