About this talk
Blaise Aguera y Arcas leads a dazzling demo of Photosynth, software that could transform the way we look at digital images. Using still photos culled from the Web, Photosynth builds breathtaking dreamscapes and lets us navigate them.
Speakers Blaise Aguera y Arcas: Software architect
Blaise Aguera y Arcas is an architect at Microsoft Live Labs, architect of Seadragon, and the co-creator of Photosynth, a monumental piece of software capable of assembling static photos into a synergy of zoomable, navigatable spaces.
Why you should listen to him:
Blaise Aguera y Arcas' background is as multidimensional as the visions he helps create. In the 1990s, he authored patents on both video compression and 3D visualization techniques, and in 2001, he made an influential computational discovery that cast doubt on Gutenberg's role as the father of movable type.
He also created Seadragon (acquired by Microsoft in 2006), the visualization technology that gives Photosynth its amazingly smooth digital rendering and zoom capabilities. Photosynth itself is a vastly powerful piece of software capable of taking a wide variety of images, analyzing them for similarities, and grafting them together into an interactive three-dimensional space. This seamless patchwork of images can be viewed via multiple angles and magnifications, allowing us to look around corners or "fly" in for a (much) closer look.
Simply put, it could utterly transform the way we experience digital images.
"Perhaps the most amazing demo I've seen this year."
Ethan Zuckerman, TED attendee and Global Voices blogger
이거 정말 대박.
저런 기술이 있다는 것도 대박,
저렇게 High resolution이 가능하다는 것도 대박,
저런 presentation이 가능하다는 것도 대박,
세상엔 천재들이 참 많다.....허허허허...