August 24, 2008 | By Joel Dehlin | 6 Comments
A year or so ago we did some “tech talks” in California, Washington and Utah where we got together with techies to discuss technology at the Church. We’ll be doing this online this week. This one is for people interested in technology and how the Church uses it.
More information here.
August 23, 2008 | By Joel Dehlin | 12 Comments
Six months or so ago I heard about a web site called PhotoSynth, a tool that started in Microsoft Research Labs. You can upload pictures of a building or city block or object or whatever into PhotoSynth and it will stitch them together into a 3d view.
PhotoSynth is now live. It has some limitations, like the inability to add pictures to someone else’s Synth, but you can just imagine the potential!
I downloaded a bunch of pictures of the SL temple from Flickr and created a PhotoSynth called “Mormon Temple (SLC).” It was able to automatically stitch together about 11 percent of them, although all from the same side.
Would love to see someone put enough pictures into a Synth to create a full 3d view of one of the temples!
Kudos to Microsoft for a clever idea!
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