How insane is Seadragon!
Its aim is nothing less than to change the way we use screens, from wall-sized displays to mobile devices, so that visual information can be smoothly browsed regardless of the amount of data involved or the bandwidth of the network…
…Speed of navigation is independent of the size or number of objects.
Performance depends only on the ratio of bandwidth to pixels on the screen.
Transitions are smooth as butter.
Scaling is near perfect and rapid for screens of any resolution.
And the demo implimentation of it in Photosynth (Windows only) is mental too.
…takes a large collection of photos of a place or an object, analyzes them for similarities, and then displays the photos in a reconstructed three-dimensional space, showing you how each one relates to the next.
In our collections, you can access gigabytes of photos in seconds, view a scene from nearly any angle, find similar photos with a single click, and zoom in to make the smallest detail as big as your monitor.
TED Talk Seadragon & Photosynth Demo
Both stunning projects!
WOW!!! Amazing work! TED is always a wonderful source for just amazing and creatively innovative work. Thanks for posting this man!!
Cheers,
Sam
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In our collections, you can access gigabytes of photos in seconds…
got this reaction from a friend of mine…
“If you read the white papers from the University of Washington, there are some downsides… they need to process something like 10,000 pictures of the same scene, achieving positioning for only 3,000 photos. It takes a top-end PC about 3 weeks to churn through the dataset and work out the positioning, so that is why they have collections for viewing rather than allowing you to select your own group of photos.”
i think we will have to wait for a while, but in the end.. whooow!