June 14, 2007 at 22:58Everyscape - three-dimensional image of places on the planet from ordinary photos
Everyscape is a site about to show the whole world both outside and inside. It is planned to bring such an unthinkable undertaking to life with the help of ordinary photographs. The fact is that the founder of Everyscape Mok Oh (Mok Oh) has developed and patented a technology that allows you to create three-dimensional effects and "stitch" a series of photos together. The results will be displayed using Adobe Flash technology through a browser window.
At each viewpoint, small green arrows will be displayed, with which you can smoothly get to neighboring viewpoints, including inside neighboring buildings - for this, an interesting three-dimensional flight effect is used. You can also view some additional information about the place. Now at Everyscape, you can see Union Square in San Francisco.
To create such three-dimensional images, Everyscape creators need to know the coordinates and orientation of the camera at the time of shooting. These data will be needed when “gluing” photographs and adding them to the image.
In addition to its professional team, Everyscape plans to resort to the help of ordinary users. Everyscape calls such enthusiasts Scape artists - to become one of them, you need to register on the Scape Artist page . Thus, obtaining Everyscape photos will cost much less than Microsoft (with its Photosynth project) and Google (with Google Maps Street View).
This fall, Everyscape releases an image of San Francisco. By the end of the year, 10 cities will already be available, including Boston, New York and Seattle. If you live in the USA and want Everyscape photographers to come to your city, you need to leave a request on this page .
By the way, here is the promised video demonstrating the capabilities of the Moka Okha technology:
via O'Reilly Radar .
At each viewpoint, small green arrows will be displayed, with which you can smoothly get to neighboring viewpoints, including inside neighboring buildings - for this, an interesting three-dimensional flight effect is used. You can also view some additional information about the place. Now at Everyscape, you can see Union Square in San Francisco.
To create such three-dimensional images, Everyscape creators need to know the coordinates and orientation of the camera at the time of shooting. These data will be needed when “gluing” photographs and adding them to the image.
In addition to its professional team, Everyscape plans to resort to the help of ordinary users. Everyscape calls such enthusiasts Scape artists - to become one of them, you need to register on the Scape Artist page . Thus, obtaining Everyscape photos will cost much less than Microsoft (with its Photosynth project) and Google (with Google Maps Street View).
This fall, Everyscape releases an image of San Francisco. By the end of the year, 10 cities will already be available, including Boston, New York and Seattle. If you live in the USA and want Everyscape photographers to come to your city, you need to leave a request on this page .
By the way, here is the promised video demonstrating the capabilities of the Moka Okha technology:
via O'Reilly Radar .