WolfenFlickr3D
This is one of the oddest mash-ups I have yet seen; a combination of Wolfenstein 3D and Flickr..? Basically it enables you to import Flickr images into Castle Wolfenstein (by username/search query), and then walk around and look at them.
Mentalist. I love it.
More Synth
Live Labs has launched Photosynth.
If you don’t already know, Photosynth takes a collection of pictures (of a scene or object) and magically creates and computes points in a 3d space which represent points on the surface of the photographed object.
This then provides an immersive (reconstruction of the scene) geometry, that the user can navigate, to view the images.
The above video demonstrates how the ‘point cloud’ describes the scene and how images are located in this inferred space.
Photosynth post history here.
Photosynth +
“When a scene is photographed many times by different people, the viewpoints often cluster along certain paths. These paths are largely specific to the scene being photographed, and traverse interesting regions and viewpoints. We seek to discover a range of such paths and turn them into controls for image-based rendering. Our approach takes as input a large set of community or personal photos, reconstructs camera viewpoints, and automatically computes orbits, panoramas, canonical views, and optimal paths between views. The scene can then be interactively browsed in 3D using these controls or with five degree-of-freedom free-viewpoint control. As the user browses the scene, nearby views are continuously selected and transformed, using control-adaptive reprojection techniques.”
Blow Up Your Flickr
See your Flickr photosets in a great-looking, fullscreen display.
Via AR again…
Itty Bitty New York City
This dude got bored with his homework and distracted by Blender, resulting in the above animation of New York. The movie was created using use one stock photo (yes one photo) and Blender 2.46, which I have and obviously I’m now going to learn.
Wow.
8bit Vs Lego
Sweet Flickr set combining LEGO and old skool video games.
Kaiju Art Collection
Kaiju (Japanese Monsters) Flickr set.
Gaming + Reality
Camera Tossing
Camera tossing involves (wait for it…), throwing your camera in the air whilst opening the shutter. Currently the original flickr group has 5,000 members with nearly 3,500 submitted photos. Apparently there are some 15,000 photos tagged ‘cameratoss’ on flickr to date.
More info here.
Photoyoda
French photographer Cedric Delsaux has had the genius idea of photographing Star Wars characters and stuff in modern day urban locations. Sweet.
More here.
NYC
Time Square // New York City // Lumix DMC
Cityshrinker
”You see amazing things every day. It could be out the window of the train on your way to work, it could be in your back yard, even better it could be somewhere completely foreign, something you didnt know existed. My aim is to give that feeling of newness with each shot I take. My method is to take what was once large and shrink it down to model size.”
Golden Shower
Virgin Atlantic Lounge JKF // Lumix DMC - LX2
Bert? Bert?
Lumix DMC
Lego Portraits
More here…
