How many Flickr users does it take to recreate Rome?


	How many Flickr users does it take to recreate Rome?

Socratoad

9-22-2009 7:45 AM

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9-22-2009 2:03 PM

mugofcoffee

Quite interesting...in anyway, what all people think of creating?

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Flickr is one of my favourite all-time web services, and I'll admit a huge fascination with some of the <A href="http://code.flickr.com/blog/tag/maps/">visualisation stuff</A> the Flickr folks do with maps, Flickr photos and their location data. So you can imagine my excitement last week as Popular Science featured a piece on how a University of Washington Graphics team <EM>automatically</EM> recreated Rome with images from Flickr. The team took photos from 150,000 Flickr users, and using some custom algorithms recreated Rome automatically using 500 computers and 13 hours processing time. They even went one better and also recreated the slowly-sinking city of Venice, and built that 3D virtual model from 250,000 photos in under a day.</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/29986457-49CA-473D-BF3D-E84F11388244/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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