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Biological Synth

David Shorthouse

Recently, Microsoft Live Labs made their Photosynth publicly available. Some of you may have watched the TED conference talk by Blaise Aguera y Arcas in March, 2007:

Microsoft Live Labs very correctly recognizes that this technology has huge potential for the Encyclopedia of Life and have a number of “synth” examples now posted on Photosynth that are tagged EOL. The Photosynth software requires a modest download because it is computationally expensive, but what the technology provides is a seamless way to create hyperlinks between related images, thus creating a basic 3D model. This has immense potential for type specimens in museums throughout the world. Blaise stopped by the Biodiversity Informatics Group building the day before the public launch and gave a stunning preview. Here’s one such example:

This entry was posted on Thursday, August 21st, 2008 at 7:01 am and is filed under General. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

2 Responses to “Biological Synth”

  1. kehan Says:
    August 22nd, 2008 at 6:58 am → Great unless you're using a mac or linux Read it ↓

  2. David Shorthouse Says:
    August 22nd, 2008 at 7:04 am → True, but Blaise assured us that a binary is also being developed for the Mac. The binary (and browser plug-in) ... Read it ↓

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