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The ability to selectively add or delete photos to a Photosynth.
This way I can remove photos that don't work or are redundant, and add additional photos to make the scene more synthy.
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Inappropriate?Absolutely necessary. After it creates the synth I'd like to be able to review it using the viewer and right-click to remove images, especially those that only have 1-2 images in the 3D group (as in the control Switch to Next 3D group).
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I’m warped waiting for that feature
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Inappropriate?I'm pissed off that typically of MS, they didn't think to include the obvious in this software - as usual!
I’m pissed off!
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MickY_G, I am somewhat amazed at you. Do you really believe that Live Labs didn't think of this? As Jonathan stated above, they want and plan to implement this feature.
What we have today is simply the very first version. Live Labs got the synther to a point where it could successfully run on almost any Windows PC at an amazing speed compared to the original tests (hours instead of days) and wanted to let all of us who had been dying to try synthing our own photos have a go at it. They aren't finished. They have plenty of things that they want to add. Just go watch some of their videos around the internet to see that they have much bigger dreams than this first release.
We are getting to play with Photosynth when the features are not even all added yet. We are lucky! Imagine if they had made us wait one more year until they add all sorts of refinements and features like the one asked for here. I'm just glad we get to use it now. It will get much much better. -
Inappropriate?When you add this idea, it would also be cool to be able to hide/remove images of a certain size.
This would allow us to use low quality video frames to build up the features and the point cloud, and then stitch some selected high quality images into the 3D scene. I've made some 1300+ image synths from streams of LQ images and they work much quicker than a 300 image HQ one.
I suppose the big UI problem is how do you navigate between images if they no longer overlap?1 Comment Add a comment
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The space bar, zed, comma, and full stop keys would still accomplish navigation quite well. As you point out, it's not quite the neighbour tour if you've suppressed overlapping images, but it would get the job done. :)
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Inappropriate?Problem is that doing something like that would take an enormous amount of processing power itself - likely several times more than the average "per picture" time as it then has to check against all the existing images in the synth, make new paths relating it to them (and them back to it), etc. EG for a 200 picture one that takes 3 hours to process, easily more than a minute per picture to stitch in a new one - probably 5-10 mins or more. Not something you really want to be doing via a silverlight client over a consumer broadband connection, nor having to bodge it and offload the strain to the servers. Similarly there'd be extra work to patch the hole left by deleting a broken one, unless it genuinely added nothing to the synth (and even then, there'd have to be recalculation if the the suspicion is that it was disrupting the synthiness of everything else somehow).
This, I suspect, is why it hasn't been implemented and we end up having to do over from scratch .... because inserting or removing (or both), say, 10 images, would take almost as long as simply doing a whole new synth AND yield less satisfactory results.
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It's not our problem !
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Inappropriate?Well im sure their working on it.
For example i have a lot of Forty-Niners pics, one of them includes a cartoon leaking on the Raider logo. After this was Sythed it turns out its leaking on the head of my own Chearleader team..not good, it has to be edited or ask at least if we like it the way it is or re-organize the fotos in diffrent locations.
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Inappropriate?One year on and no ability to add, or delete photos without redoing a full synth, and making paper and pencil notes on what to include the next time.
Makes me think this is just a lab experiment that has no future in MS eyes. Don't count on your synths being around as long as you would like.
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