System.Nerd.John.Blog » silverlight http://jsprunger.com A Consultant's Adventures in Software Development Sun, 28 Feb 2010 20:51:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Microsoft Photosynth http://jsprunger.com/microsoft-photosynth/ http://jsprunger.com/microsoft-photosynth/#comments Mon, 09 Nov 2009 05:27:40 +0000 admin http://jsprunger.com/?p=52 Microsoft showed us Photosynth while we were touring the MTC in downtown Chicago a few months ago.  Photosynth is an impressive new Silverlight-based technology they’ve been working on that can be used to stitch hundreds of images together into a single explorable, zoomable, pannable, and web-viewable panoramic image.   I was looking for a situation where I could possibly make use of Photosynth since I first saw it.   The amazing panaromic views of Isle Royale National Park in Michigan proved to be the perfect opportunity.

The photosynths are easy to make – just stand in one place, turn in a circle and take about 50-100 overlapping pictures.  Be sure to zoom in a few times and take some detail shots.  After downloading the Photosynth client and selecting photos to stitch, some pre-processing takes place on your computer and the images are uploaded to the Photosynth website where the final combined result can be viewed.  The resulting photosynth can be embedded in a web page.

You can see an example from Isle Royale below.  Give it a few seconds to load for a better experience while zooming around.  Use the mouse wheel to zoom in and out, and drag the picture around to pan.

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