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Hey Rick -- I'm so glad you put this original synth up. Was it shot with aome ultra-wide lens by any chance? And the square format?

Jonathan (77 weeks ago) delete

If I recall correctly, these were shot with a fish-eye lens and then undistorted.

Rick (537 days ago) delete

Jonathan remembers correctly.  If you look carefully, you'll see that each of these square images comes with a paired neighbor taken from the same location.  I'm undistorting each fisheye into two rectilinear images before giving them to the synther.

fotoflex (517 days ago) delete

Hi Rick,
Very good work here.
One question, though; do you mean you have one original and then 'shift' etcetera and then put them both in the synth?
Your synth seems to give a lot more information next to the active frame. I'll try this as well.

vedantbmisra (508 days ago) delete

nice work.. synth is rocking and rick as well...

dariusmonsef (463 days ago) delete

Well captured... that was a big space to photo-document.

gyana_mca (418 days ago) delete

Why it's not working on my pc properly.

Mr.R.Furtick (401 days ago) delete

I think that this is wonderful. I love to see what is next.

EagleWatch (400 days ago) delete

Good work pal :-)

Sunwide (393 days ago) delete

Seemingly seamless pals. Go for betterment. SLR digital camera can capture 60(?) frames / second. However, it still called photography not video yet though. Photosynth, amazing new experience.

ccamillek (390 days ago) delete

This is a very beautiful place that you have visited. I hope one day I would be as fortunate.

kernal777 (389 days ago) delete

its impressive - but the program is terribly written

VentureRES (54 weeks ago) delete

That's an interesting statement kernal777... are you saying you have a copy of the source code?  Or are you just describing it's 'alpha' state?  I would choose your answer carefully.

Mathew1979 (361 days ago) delete

Looks wonderful..Looking fwd to see more...

czsnow (358 days ago) delete

I' don't like this, but will comment later as it develops, keep it simple I' say, (The photography-no fish with process should help).

Vicky1 (348 days ago) delete

Is nice the Photosynth I like it.

Phillyrose (341 days ago) delete

Simply amazing! Thanks for sharing it. Someday I will do something like this.

LANCER (341 days ago) delete

AMAZING REALLY AMAZING

mmcknz (321 days ago) delete

Great creations and the graphics is phenomincal lovin it...good job

JerryCONeal1124 (313 days ago) delete

Awesome!  Keep on developing new programs as great as this one!

buster63 (312 days ago) delete

beautiful work,i hope i can be as creative. looking forward to seeing more, more, more

christineread8 (304 days ago) delete

this is bloody fabulous i just hope all my photos and future ones turn out like this and i hope future upgrades will be just as good

TiMMiE17 (304 days ago) delete

THis is Awesome !! i LoVE it !! and you guys have worked well !! good on you all !!

jwileby (304 days ago) delete

interesting

mayest (304 days ago) delete

New,must learn to use it,but it's great,wel don guys

kico5426 (304 days ago) delete

muy bueno, pero esta todo en INGLES ojala pudiera poneerlo en ESPAÑOL.

cat4949 (303 days ago) delete

Fantastico. Felicitaciones. Es un magnifico programa y creacion

rajeev12304 (303 days ago) delete

This was fantastic.

kirkdorr (300 days ago) delete

what is this

kathyacorey (291 days ago) delete

Cooolllll!!!!! I am on my way out to shoot my first event location and get it here as soon as I am skilled enough to do so! Thanks Microsoft and UDub!

hanbim520 (291 days ago) delete

good

Rick (41 weeks ago) delete

To answer David's question:  yes, I took the pictures using a fisheye lens, and then wrote my own software to extract "square" (planar perspective) images from the fisheye photos before synthing them together.

mzbtower (286 days ago) delete

i am trying to get my first synth put on the site

MediaByAndrew (283 days ago) delete

Just discovered synth - this gallery in particular means new way of taking photos of the world around me....

RogerRob (282 days ago) delete

Looking at some of the Synth'd photos, this definitely opens up a new world of 3D photography.  Photos jump out live!  Thanks  for sharing and for giving us new ideas.

mhallward (282 days ago) delete

This is really cool!  I love it!!

NicksPk1 (40 weeks ago) delete

Cool!!

wswartca (40 weeks ago) delete

Interesting and a new area for photography. Trust improvements will continue.

qoricancha2009 (277 days ago) delete

This is a very good software, I like it and I am trying to learn more about it.

           Sincerely          Luis Zavala

hudlin (275 days ago) delete

i dont understand this program Hahahahahaha

Puuma (274 days ago) delete

nice

lovinpics (262 days ago) delete

this is too awsome for words rick i just hope a picture junky with only a chip camera can understand a bet of what to do lol

oceanbrisa (262 days ago) delete

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rinobernal804 (262 days ago) delete

very interesting

bullseye80 (262 days ago) delete

I really hope I can do something with this as I think it is superb

Len_Altig (262 days ago) delete

I have been using various software to stitch pictures since 1992 but this is awesome.  Thank you

micadany (262 days ago) delete

Excellent job! Congratulations!!!!

kalum (257 days ago) delete

well come

camathero (256 days ago) delete

Interesting...

Canvas_Bob (255 days ago) delete

Very Cool - look forward to stitching soon, just hope I don't stick myself with the needle ;-)

BretBlazer (250 days ago) delete

This application is exciting, nice job. I 'm looking foward to trying it soon. Thanks for putting it out here for us. It's great when you see something like this and it gets your creative juices flowing. And it's greater when you see what's produced from the creative mind.

Kindertotenlieder (32 weeks ago) delete

Beautiful job with the early morning light!  BTW, the great "Fur Hat" story from Milan Kundera's The Book of Laughter and Forgetting took place on the long balcony of the only large palace pictured here.

mkj (218 days ago) delete

very nice

pritam.nayek (172 days ago) delete

it's Amazing Creativity. Just too Good.Excellent Effort.

MARK33 (167 days ago) delete

VERY GOOD
HOW DO I PUT MY PHOTO FOR
I am nex and have litle undertanding

salahaly (166 days ago) delete

Excellent.It is big leap

almita (150 days ago) delete

very interesting ilearned of its 
existence in a congress and i was
impressed me is great!!!

chad.tatham (129 days ago) delete

sweet

a2003 (129 days ago) delete

Carter

micro-light-01 (113 days ago) delete

this synth is like a game, an art class, and a new gift.
i can see this in the way you put your work together, but it doesnt look like work. how long did this take to put together Rick?

                                    micro-light-01

Rick (111 days ago) delete

To answer micro-light-01's recent question, it took me about a half hour to walk around the square taking photos.  Once I pointed Photosynth at the photos, it was done in less than an hour.  I didn't have to do any additional work besides typing in my description.

andredd1 (93 days ago) delete

Amazing!!! I'm excinting to try it. Great job.

eastpoint (93 days ago) delete

Too dark. Do a bit of compensation.

NovoVeritasRealm (13 weeks ago) delete

Following my curiosity...thank you for the wonderful example

joohvitzel (59 days ago) delete

adoorei mto boom ...! axei so um pokinhu pesado mais mto boom...

g_curious_studios_44 (8 weeks ago) delete

UNREALlllll Beautiful what can i say.........

davenanmccullough (54 days ago) delete

Really Really neet! cool !

Du2bane (46 days ago) delete

I always dream of what can I do to make pictures better; something besides the everyday flat photos. I did have dream of wondering how pictures can be viewed in 3D without the 3D viewer but trashed that thought because I am not a creator. Thank you gentlemen for being the creators.  Now I have something to show my two sons and swear I did my first photosynth without any help. My won't they be amazed!!

Rick (33 days ago) delete

Thanks for all the great comments and words of encouragement!  I'm looking forward to exploring all of the synths that you are all creating as well.

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Prague Old Town Square (Staré Mesto)

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Rick

8/17/2008

290 Photos - 87% Synthy

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This is probably the first synth ever shot and knit together.

I was in Prague in May 2004 for the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) and I wanted to capture the beautiful old town square in a way that was more immersive and three-dimensional than the panoramas I had been shooting (and stitching) until then.

I decided to walk around the perimiter shooting overlapped photos of the building facades, as well as taking a few panoramas to "link" everything together.

When I got back to Seattle, I started collaborating with Noah Snavely and Steve Seitz at the University of Washington on these ideas. Noah was able to create the world's first synth (we were calling them "photo tours") from this data.

We later hit upon the idea of using photos from the Web to achieve the same effect. A few months later, we had the first working "Photo Tourism" system (http://research.microsoft.com/IVM/PhotoTours/), which we presented at SIGGRAPH 2006 and which eventually led to the creation of Photosynth.

See if you can find the panorama taken while walking arond the fountain. (Click on the little globe to see the overall lay of the square.) There's a second 3D group taken from the clock tower (use the "Next 3D Group" button in the URH corner).

Enjoy! Rick

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