Posts Tagged ‘Photosynth’

Photosynth progress

Posted on the August 27th, 2008 under Photography,Technology by Al

Note – you will need to install the Photosynth browser plug-in to see the images below. At this time you have to install the client and browser plug-in at the same time, which you can do by click on the below.

While I still can’t get Microsoft’s Photosynth to display the web images on my Windows XP or Vista running in VMWare Fusion v1 (Fusion v2 Beta is required), I was able to get some interesting results with a series of pictures I took of our house and property.

The steps to creating a synth are very simple:

  1. 1. Take pictures, preferably enough “connecting photos”
  2. 2. Feed the photos to the Photosynth program and it does the rest

My first attempt at creating the necessary photos for a good synth was a simple 360 degree view from a center-ish point in the backyard: camera on a tripod, snapping pictures and slightly rotating the camera for the next shot.  Of the 42 photos I feed it, 76% of them were synthy and the following is the result.

Photosynth, the magic is getting it to run

Posted on the August 25th, 2008 under Photography,Technology by Al

Apparently, I am not synthy enough, to borrow a phrase from Microsoft’s Photosynth beta.  Wanting to try Photosynth but using a Macbook Pro as my primary computer, which is not supported natively, I launched Vista Home Premium in a VMWare Fusion (v1) virtual machine to meet the requirements of running it in Windows.  After downloading and installing the software then permitting the browser plug-in to install I took a shot at my first synth.  I grabbed 40 photos of our house and surrounding property taken back in 2003 and feed it into Photosynth.  After it processed and uploaded the finished result to the Photosynth web site, I was presented with the following when trying to view the results: