Biological Synth
David ShorthouseRecently, 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:
August 22nd, 2008 at 6:58 am → Great unless you're using a mac or linux Read it ↓
Great unless you’re using a mac or linux
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 ↓
True, but Blaise assured us that a binary is also being developed for the Mac. The binary (and browser plug-in) works for Internet Explorer and FireFox on Windows machines at the moment.