{"id":5768,"date":"2009-07-29T05:43:39","date_gmt":"2011-07-11T07:09:32","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-07-11T13:09:32","modified_gmt":"2011-07-11T07:09:32","slug":"crowdsourced-3d-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/crowdsourced-3d-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Crowdsourced 3D City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nIf a million monkeys typing can write Hamlet, can a million tourists&#8217; snapshots map out a 3D picture of Rome?\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe answer is yes. And Venice, too.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThere are more than 2 million photos on Flickr tagged with Rome. They capture almost every nook and cranny, every column and doorway, of the old city. If you had a lot of computer power, and the right smart software, you could take these 2 million views and compile them into a single unified 3D portrait.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAnd if this system from the University of Washington <a href=\"http:\/\/grail.cs.washington.edu\/rome\/\">GRAIL lab<\/a> worked for Rome you could take other highly photographed places, such as St Marks Plaza in Venice, and construct a visual 3D picture, down to the smallest detail.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/ct2\/Picture%2010.png\" height=\"136\" width=\"332\" border=\"0\" align=\"middle\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Picture 10\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMicrosoft&#8217;s Photosynth accomplished a similar feat. The movie below does that same thing with huge piles of photos taken off of&#160; Flickr.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nEventually, the every city in the world will get a full textured 3D view of itself. (via <a href=\"http:\/\/waxy.org\/links\/\">Waxy<\/a>)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/y9zF97JL30A&#38;hl=en&#38;fs=1&#38;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/y9zF97JL30A&#38;hl=en&#38;fs=1&#38;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If a million monkeys typing can write Hamlet, can a million tourists&#8217; snapshots map out a 3D picture of Rome? The answer is yes. And Venice, too. There are more than 2 million photos on Flickr tagged with Rome. They &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/crowdsourced-3d-city\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"0","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5768"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}