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National Geographic - Lincoln Memorial

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 13:05:26 Z

by NationalGeographic "Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C. Anchoring the west end of the National Mall in Washington, D.C., this memorial to the 16th President of the United States was opened to the public in 1922. While many famous events have taken place on the site, perhaps the best known is Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech."

Sistine Chapel - Cappella Sistina

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:14:54 Z

by Nerdtalker "A photosynth created with pictures taken during a recent visit to the Sistine Chapel. The chapel was purposefully dimly lit to discourage photography. Luckily I have some pretty fast lenses at my disposal that made it possible to take passable photos. Hope you enjoy!"

The Nose

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 14:32:41 Z

by Sphynctre "This is MacDuff. He's an 8 year old Golden Retriever. I like noses. He's got a nice nose. It's not as black or wet as it used to be, but it's still a very nice, familiar nose. This nose brings me a little bit of joy every day. Ah... nose. By the way - CHECK OUT THE POINT CLOUD! If you press "P" a couple times, you'll toggle through the viewing modes. With only the point cloud showing, you can actually put yourself inside MacDuff's head! Ok, so maybe it's not that amazing... but it's better than nothing."

National Geographic: Stonehenge Revealed

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 05:15:18 Z

by Joshua "Complete survey (interior and exterior) of Stonehenge. Photographs by Becky Hale, National Geographic Society. "

Curiosity Table, Ikh Nart Nature Reserve, Mongolia

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 09:42:28 Z

by TonyErnst "This table is made of a large flat rock balanced on the skulls of argali rams. It's used as a repository for all the interesting things found while out in the field. If you zoom in and explore a bit you can find fox skeletons, various horns and antlers, semi-precious stones (mostly amythest), and a few metal relics. Taken: September 19, 2009 Ikh Nart Nature Reserve, Mongolia You can see more of my photography at: http://tonyernst.com"

Deep Wood House's South Lawn (Odds Half)

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:15:05 Z

by Nathanael "This is part of one of my synths that I've been trying to make work since the 8th of September. It's only a small portion of the grounds around the Deep Wood House in Salem Oregon's Bush's Pasture Park but it's a beginning. Photosynth keeps running out of memory while analysing the full set of photos because they are all of things which generate a lot of 'image features' (the patches of texture in your photos that Photosynth matches to figure out how the camera positions and points in the photos match and relate to each other). After trying fewer and fewer photos at one time, being forced down near to half the number of images, and becoming more and more irritated that objects featured in both earlier and later photos would not get the extra detail in the point cloud that they should if all the photos were together, I thought that if I had to make a synth with only half the photos, I would at least choose photos that were evenly spaced from the beginning to the end of my photo set. I've now successfully synthed (97% 'successful' anyway - some annoying rifts were introduced in the point cloud because of missing every other photo in these 'half' sets) both the odd numbered photos and the even numbered photos as separate groups. Someone who had viewed one of the synths and later found the second might mistake it for the first one that they had seen and comparing the point clouds of both show that they are truly very similar but the detail and density of the point cloud that is lost because of missing the matching that should happen between the evens and the odds is very unfortunate."

aya sofia

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:48:00 Z

by renedepaula

Interior of the Baptistery, Florence

Sat, 03 Oct 2009 18:17:56 Z

by digitalis "The Florence Baptistry or Battistero di San Giovanni (Baptistery of St. John) is an octagonal basilica built between 1059 and 1128 in the Florentine Romanesque style. The interior's main feature is the high, vaulted ceiling with breathtaking mosaics of biblical scenes in the primitive style, dating from 1225. see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Baptistry"

TREE 4

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 09:40:08 Z

by G--MAN

Petra

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 11:18:00 Z

by gh975223