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Multiple user synths?
What about "community" synths where many of us may have similar photos of the same place? This way I could add my pictures with those of others and get a pretty good rendering.
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And if photosynth could do something like seti@home and come up with a distributed client that could wait for work to process then the whole thing could be distributed.
Upload a picture from your phone to a group effort and it get included right away via distributed network computing... so no need to only use local PC CPU.
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Inappropriate?That's just what I want. I'd sure find 10 people willing to frequently upload pictures to a huge synth for the quarter we live in.2 Comments Add a comment
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That gave me an idea JackH. What if the timestamps of pictures were used as well? Then you could have a 4 dimensional Symph where you could move back and forth over time looking at the same 3D area. -
Actually, we may already (almost) have this. Try pressing '.' (the period) to go forward in 'time', or ',' (comma) to go backward. It doesn't use the timestamp, but moves through images in filename order (and unless you renamed the images, cameras output photos in filename order = time order). Synths like the rock climbing synth on Aegialis (featured on the homepage) look great this way.
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Inappropriate?that could be really amazing. Espacially if the photos could be geo-tagged as well, so that any uploaded photos could be used to add detail to existing synths - as others have suggested.
I’m hopeful
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Inappropriate?And if photosynth could do something like seti@home and come up with a distributed client that could wait for work to process then the whole thing could be distributed.
Upload a picture from your phone to a group effort and it get included right away via distributed network computing... so no need to only use local PC CPU.
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Inappropriate?We love this idea too. There are many ways of getting this kind of collective effect from multiple users, ranging from just a shared bucket of photos synthed collectively to semi-automatic linking between similar synths. We certainly want to go there!
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Inappropriate?Awesome suggestions.
I'm all for the collective synths, then enable us to sort the good from the bad by filtering on resolution quality (so you can not display the low res ones). And any other type of filtering; e.g. day/night, model of camera, seasons (this is cool in the 1 synth if U have pictures with and without snow). Auto linking sounds cool.
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Inappropriate?Last time, I download some photos of the same place with nearly the same shotting angle from flickr but fail to synth
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Um... think this should be in another topic... this is an "ideas" topic, not a "problems" topic. I'm following this and don't want to read un-related stuff...
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Inappropriate?I would be willing to pay a small fee if someone else with a "synthing farm" could process it for me. Getting all the photos uploaded is not a problem, even if I have to create several small erasable synths just to get all the photos on the MS servers.
Even if I get a new latest greatest PC, it doesn't sound like it would handle the 1,000 plus photo type of synths that I would like to do.
The synth farm would need a way to access and synth my photos that I already have on the MS servers.
I've seen some recent folding farms (folding@home) that have 50+ GPU's. Using something like NVidias new CUDA development software could make GPU synthing a real possibility.
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Inappropriate?I am thinking more like allowing the end user to combine synths. Why can't I select synth A and synth B and see what happens. Lets say that someone synth up a shopping mall, why can't I grab all of the synth for an area and see what happens.1 Comment Add a comment
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Perhaps you'd be interested in Merge Multiple Synth Results From Different Users.
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