Incremental uploads: Publish first, upload later
It would be nice if the Photosynth uploader first published the synth, then uploaded low resolution versions of the most important images, then finally added the high resolution images in order of importance.
Importance could be estimated by relative surface area and difference of viewpoint, so that the high resolution shots of similar viewpoints and zoomed in shots of finer details are uploaded last of all.
This would give a better user experience; cutting down on waiting time, knowing how 'synthy' the scene is before the upload completes, and having the ability to cancel a bad synth before it's finished. It would give a much better impression of the technology to impatient users with modern PCs and "high speed" internet connections but actually have rather low upload bandwidth.
Importance could be estimated by relative surface area and difference of viewpoint, so that the high resolution shots of similar viewpoints and zoomed in shots of finer details are uploaded last of all.
This would give a better user experience; cutting down on waiting time, knowing how 'synthy' the scene is before the upload completes, and having the ability to cancel a bad synth before it's finished. It would give a much better impression of the technology to impatient users with modern PCs and "high speed" internet connections but actually have rather low upload bandwidth.
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Inappropriate?Great thinking bitplane! A task on our backlog which seems fairly feasible is to change the order of upload so that low-rez versions of all the images are available within about 1 minute of the actual computation finishing. We're thinking of labeling this a "preview" mode, and it would automatically change to standard mode as soon as the full rez of the last image was successfully uploaded.
You are exactly right that long upload times are a pain at the moment, and being able to see your synths much earlier in the process would be a big help.
I hope we can get to this one fairly early in the new year.
David.
I’m hopeful too.
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