Just for fun.....

1)
Scientists from the University of Washington took thousands of tourists
vacation photos posted on Flickr to create fly-though, 3D models of some of
the most photographed sites in the world. Using advanced photo analysis and
modelling techniques, models have been created of the Colosseum, the Trevi
fountain and the Croatian city of Dubrovnik. Rome's most famous landmarks
were generated in less than 24 hours from 150,000 photos, while 250,000
images were scanned to make 3D models of Venice. The Croatian city was
recreated from just 4,600 images. Tiny 3D pyramids indicate the location of
where the photographer took the original image. Researchers now want to use
the technology to turn still images into photo-realistic 3D tours. Check
out some of the images at YouTube.

http://www.youtube.com/user/JimanthaJ#play/all

http://grail.cs.washington.edu/projects/rome/rome/

2)
I mentioned Open Source software the other day. There is an easy way to get
tons of it, from the Open Source CD project.

Article at
http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/opensource/?p=931&tag=nl.e011

The site is at
http://www.theopendisc.com/

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