Seadragon and Photosynth are two new technologies that have been presented at the TED 2007 conference by it’s architect Blaise Aguera y Arcas. Seadragon is basically a way to navigate seamlessly through a very large amount of image data. He was giving three examples at the presentation.
First he introduced a 300 Megapixel image, then that he was able to zoom into a complete book and lastly that it was possible to create new types of ads that would allow to zoom in and reveal details that would not be possible otherwise.
Photosynth on the other hand can be seen as a technology that takes lots of images of an object and combine them to form 3D models of that image. His example this time was Notre Dame. Images were taken from Flickr and you could see how they were combined to create the 3D image. Take a look at the video, it is really incredible.
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[...] in video here.) I seen the Photosynth demonstration in Techfest, IIT Powai. The demonstration of Photosynth and seadragon was extremely stunning. As such technology is not yet availble to the users through internet, i was [...]