post photographic processes

Well, it' my first scheduled post and I'm late.

So, I thought i would recap a little of the SL lecture at parsons, and particularly the opening discussion by NYU professor Fred Ritchen. He mentioned a number of new technologies being developed that use computational methods to process photographic source material in various interesting ways.

(if you've seen this stuff before, look again!)

Microsoft's Photosynth is a method of gathering many thousands of images from a photosharing site like Flickr  to create a sort of 3d projection of a particular place or thing.

 (by the way, if you don't know about TED, you should)

Carnegie Mellon University is also working on 2 projects, Scene Completion, and Gigapan.  If you haven't seen Gigapan, you have to take a look.  It's some sort of an armature for a point and shoot digital camera that creates these incredibly detailed panoramic views.

"GigaPan will help bring distant communities and peoples together through images that have so much detail that they are, themselves, the objects of exploration, discovery and wonder."

And lastly, a project from the University of Edinburgh called Spellbinder, which adds "invisible" graffiti to your cellphone images.

(geekriti)

It sounds much better when they say it;

"Spellbinder is a new interactive digital medium based on camera phones and image matching. Using Spellbinder, digital content can be embedded in the real world by taking a photograph of an object or place. The digital content can be released by another user by taking another photograph of the same location. Spellbinder does not require special markers or barcodes to be placed in the world. Unlike tracking technologies such as global positioning systems, the focus is on what specifically is being looked at rather than where the user is. The Branded Tribes research project is exploring uses of this technology for social interaction in city spaces using an approach of research by design. Graphics of real world brandscapes are used as placeholders for virtual computer graphics. We report innovative outcomes from the first phase of this research."

Looking at all of these also made me think about Google Street view.

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(click "view larger map" then hit back button....don't know why i can't get it to work right.)