Jaw-dropping Photosynth demo ..

[Zico]

Wow.. just wow!

Using photos of oft-snapped subjects (like Notre Dame) scraped from around the Web, Photosynth (based on Seadragon technology) creates breathtaking multidimensional spaces with multiresolution zoom and navigation features that outstrip all expectation. Its architect, Blaise Aguera y Arcas, shows it off in this standing-ovation demo. Curious about that speck in corner? Dive into a freefall and watch as the speck becomes a gargoyle. With an unpleasant grimace. And an ant-sized chip in its lower left molar. "Perhaps the most amazing demo I've seen this year," wrote Ethan Zuckerman, after TED2007. Indeed, Photosynth might utterly transform the way we manipulate and experience digital images

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/129

"I see this going past images, to any knowledge, facts, dates, events, formula...eventually "the sum of human knowledge" (the often quoted dream of encyclopedia writers) will end up somewhere on the/an internet. When this synth technology is developed to sift through all information; not just picture information, it will find the overlaps to connect it all and form it into one contiguous navigable mass of knowledge. At times, God must be delighted with us."

[Flat.tyres]

that is truly amazing. well worth viewing.