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Revolutionary use of digital images
This was on Digg this morning, so many of you might have seen it:
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/129 but I'm surprised no one has mentioned it here. It's not often a Micros**t technology demonstration draws gasps of astonishment from a live audience, nor, if I'm honest, a great deal of respect from me, given my view of their products and practices. And in that vein I have to add that they acquired this, rather than invented it! But, credit where it's due, this is absolutely astonishing stuff. What they've done with the images of Notre Dame harvested from Flickr has profound implications for all digital photographers. Invest 9 minutes of your life watching the video. -- Derek Fountain on the web at http://www.derekfountain.org/ |
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Derek Fountain wrote:
It's not often a Micros**t technology demonstration draws gasps of astonishment from a live audience, nor, if I'm honest, a great deal of respect from me, given my view of their products and practices. And in that vein I have to add that they acquired this, rather than invented it! But, credit where it's due, this is absolutely astonishing stuff. What they've done with the images of Notre Dame harvested from Flickr has profound implications for all digital photographers. Large-scale copyright infringement is nothing new for Microsoft, for instance their "smart tag" technology was also designed to create unauthorised derivative works from copyright websites. |
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"if" wrote in message ... Derek Fountain wrote: It's not often a Micros**t technology demonstration draws gasps of astonishment from a live audience, nor, if I'm honest, a great deal of respect from me, given my view of their products and practices. And in that vein I have to add that they acquired this, rather than invented it! But, credit where it's due, this is absolutely astonishing stuff. What they've done with the images of Notre Dame harvested from Flickr has profound implications for all digital photographers. Large-scale copyright infringement is nothing new for Microsoft, for instance their "smart tag" technology was also designed to create unauthorised derivative works from copyright websites. If someone doesn't want people to actually look at images why are they posted? It is just another viewer like a web browser. |
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Revolutionary use of digital images
"dennis@home" wrote in message
... "if" wrote in message ... Derek Fountain wrote: It's not often a Micros**t technology demonstration draws gasps of astonishment from a live audience, nor, if I'm honest, a great deal of respect from me, given my view of their products and practices. And in that vein I have to add that they acquired this, rather than invented it! But, credit where it's due, this is absolutely astonishing stuff. What they've done with the images of Notre Dame harvested from Flickr has profound implications for all digital photographers. Large-scale copyright infringement is nothing new for Microsoft, for instance their "smart tag" technology was also designed to create unauthorised derivative works from copyright websites. If someone doesn't want people to actually look at images why are they posted? It is just another viewer like a web browser. Apparently you didn't watch the video. No web browser on Earth does what that technology does, not even close. =(8) |
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Revolutionary use of digital images
On Jun 12, 5:23 pm, Derek Fountain wrote:
But, credit where it's due, this is absolutely astonishing stuff. What they've done with the images of Notre Dame harvested from Flickr has profound implications for all digital photographers. I admit that I don't really see how this has profound implications for photographers: from that perspective, it is merely a way of cleverly indexing images (that they took them from flickr seems irrelevant to me. What is interesting (to me) is that this is an excellent way of allowing our brain's major abilities (3-d modeling) to be used to navigate through a complicated maze of information. It's inevitable that something like this will eventually be used by everybody to access information databases, as current indexing techniques (basically, tagging with words and explicitly cross-referencing) are now major limiting factors to access to information, at least in some situations. But there will be other problems with such techniques, eg it's not obvious how to map various relations between (say) academic papers to a 3-d space and then represent that visually. Another reason I liked this is that it is close to an idea Asimov had in his Foundation series: the Prime Radiant! |
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On Jun 12, 9:23 am, Derek Fountain wrote:
This was on Digg this morning, so many of you might have seen it: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/129 but I'm surprised no one has mentioned it here. It's not often a Micros**t technology demonstration draws gasps of astonishment from a live audience, nor, if I'm honest, a great deal of respect from me, given my view of their products and practices. And in that vein I have to add that they acquired this, rather than invented it! But, credit where it's due, this is absolutely astonishing stuff. What they've done with the images of Notre Dame harvested from Flickr has profound implications for all digital photographers. Invest 9 minutes of your life watching the video. -- Derek Fountain on the web athttp://www.derekfountain.org/ What a F------ JOKE! I can just seem some LOSER trying to ferret out anything worthwhile in those LITTLE PICTURES...on his PATHETIC iPhone!!!! Until people develop EYES that can zoom in (not for awhile, I trust) this stuff, this CRAMMING of data into WORTHLESS, TINY packages, not to MENTION having to DEAL with F----- pathetic ads from companies like BMW while you ATTEMPT to use this STUFF for ANTHING practical, is a WASTE OF TIME. Please y-gens, will you and your qualityless JUNK just go the F---- away??! |
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"acl" wrote in message
ps.com... On Jun 12, 5:23 pm, Derek Fountain wrote: But, credit where it's due, this is absolutely astonishing stuff. What they've done with the images of Notre Dame harvested from Flickr has profound implications for all digital photographers. I admit that I don't really see how this has profound implications for photographers: from that perspective, it is merely a way of cleverly indexing images (that they took them from flickr seems irrelevant to me. What is interesting (to me) is that this is an excellent way of allowing our brain's major abilities (3-d modeling) to be used to navigate through a complicated maze of information. It's inevitable that something like this will eventually be used by everybody to access information databases, as current indexing techniques (basically, tagging with words and explicitly cross-referencing) are now major limiting factors to access to information, at least in some situations. But there will be other problems with such techniques, eg it's not obvious how to map various relations between (say) academic papers to a 3-d space and then represent that visually. Another reason I liked this is that it is close to an idea Asimov had in his Foundation series: the Prime Radiant! Then I guess you didn't watch enough of it to see how no matter how far they zoomed in on an image there was sharp pure detail? But I guess that isn't anything of interest. Or the way it was able to pull images shot with different cameras and even different technologies from different angles, perspectives, camera settings, formats, etc. and then reconstruct the full object taking in to account all of these variables from all of these different images even going do far as being able to show you where the image in question was shot in relation to its placement in the recreated structure (in there example anyways). No I guess none of that is revolutionary. Just like it wasn't revolutionary that they had hundreds of not thousands of images up on screen and instantly viewable at nearly any zoom level instantly and with a far greater speed than anything we have today. No I guess that wasn't anything special either. =(8) |
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Revolutionary use of digital images
"Rich" wrote in message
oups.com... On Jun 12, 9:23 am, Derek Fountain wrote: This was on Digg this morning, so many of you might have seen it: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/129 but I'm surprised no one has mentioned it here. It's not often a Micros**t technology demonstration draws gasps of astonishment from a live audience, nor, if I'm honest, a great deal of respect from me, given my view of their products and practices. And in that vein I have to add that they acquired this, rather than invented it! But, credit where it's due, this is absolutely astonishing stuff. What they've done with the images of Notre Dame harvested from Flickr has profound implications for all digital photographers. Invest 9 minutes of your life watching the video. -- Derek Fountain on the web athttp://www.derekfountain.org/ What a F------ JOKE! I can just seem some LOSER trying to ferret out anything worthwhile in those LITTLE PICTURES...on his PATHETIC iPhone!!!! Until people develop EYES that can zoom in (not for awhile, I trust) this stuff, this CRAMMING of data into WORTHLESS, TINY packages, not to MENTION having to DEAL with F----- pathetic ads from companies like BMW while you ATTEMPT to use this STUFF for ANTHING practical, is a WASTE OF TIME. Please y-gens, will you and your qualityless JUNK just go the F---- away??! What a ****ing dumb ass. Didn't you actually what the video and how those little images were able to be zoomed in to full screen instantly and a very high resolution with sharp detail? Dumb ass! =(8) |
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On Jun 13, 12:17 am, "=\(8\)" wrote:
"Rich" wrote in message oups.com... On Jun 12, 9:23 am, Derek Fountain wrote: This was on Digg this morning, so many of you might have seen it: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/129 but I'm surprised no one has mentioned it here. It's not often a Micros**t technology demonstration draws gasps of astonishment from a live audience, nor, if I'm honest, a great deal of respect from me, given my view of their products and practices. And in that vein I have to add that they acquired this, rather than invented it! But, credit where it's due, this is absolutely astonishing stuff. What they've done with the images of Notre Dame harvested from Flickr has profound implications for all digital photographers. Invest 9 minutes of your life watching the video. -- Derek Fountain on the web athttp://www.derekfountain.org/ What a F------ JOKE! I can just seem some LOSER trying to ferret out anything worthwhile in those LITTLE PICTURES...on his PATHETIC iPhone!!!! Until people develop EYES that can zoom in (not for awhile, I trust) this stuff, this CRAMMING of data into WORTHLESS, TINY packages, not to MENTION having to DEAL with F----- pathetic ads from companies like BMW while you ATTEMPT to use this STUFF for ANTHING practical, is a WASTE OF TIME. Please y-gens, will you and your qualityless JUNK just go the F---- away??! What a ****ing dumb ass. Didn't you actually what the video and how those little images were able to be zoomed in to full screen instantly and a very high resolution with sharp detail? Dumb ass! =(8) Reminds me of the reason why a fast growing profession is people who are paid to wade through the terabytes of useless dross being produced everyday on the net to find stuff that is important or illuminating. |
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Revolutionary use of digital images
I admit that I don't really see how this has profound implications for
photographers: from that perspective, it is merely a way of cleverly indexing images (that they took them from flickr seems irrelevant to me. When you go out to shoot, say, a landscape, or a large interesting building like Notre Dame Cathedral, you come back with a bunch of still images. Some people attempt to "bring them to life" by packaging them up into a slideshow, where they roll by one after the other. Not exactly dramatic presentation of the media. This technology allows you to show the scene dynamically. It rebuilds the scene the viewer wants to see from the angle the viewer wants to see it from, at the zoom level the user wants to use (as long as there's original image data in the photos to work from AIUI). It allows the viewer to pan around, change viewing angle and zoom in and out at remarkably high speed. I can see that brightening up my Dad's next set of holiday photos... Of course, whether you actually want your images to be used like this, or whether you think they speak for themselves as stills, is a matter of taste. -- Derek Fountain on the web at http://www.derekfountain.org/ |
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