Computers Turn Flat Photos Into 3-D Buildings
Ini adalah artikel menarik yang ditag oleh pak Boediono kepada saya dengan isi pesan "Ini untuk Gadjah dan arsitek lainnya yang "Addicted Computer-Aided Designer". Teknologi terbaru, walaupun pakai computing power yang besar, tetapi masyarakat bisa ikut kerja dan menyumbang data foto -- seperti social games"
Sumber : The New York Times
Rome wasn’t built in a day, but in cyberspace it might be.
Computer science researchers at the University of Washington and Cornell University are deploying a system that will blend teamwork and collaboration with powerful graphics algorithms to create three-dimensional renderings of buildings, neighborhoods and potentially even entire cities.The new system, PhotoCity, grew from the original work of a Cornell computer scientist, Noah Snavely, who while working on his Ph.D. dissertation at the University of Washington, developed a set of algorithms that generated three-dimensional models from unstructured collections of two-dimensional photos.
The original project was dubbed Photo Tourism and it has since been commercialized as Microsoft’s Photosynth service, making it possible for users to upload collections of photos that can then be viewed in a quasi three-dimensional montage with a Web browser.