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Sharing a ‘Wow!’ moment – Photosynth

Saturday, July 28th, 2007

True Wow! moments – those that trigger a response like a lighted match dropped into a box of fireworks. Such occasions for me include my first program on a ZX81 (it’s amazing what you can do with 1K of RAM), seeing Seymour Papert demonstrating Logo, discovering Mosaic (the first web browser) and watching Apple’s [...]

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3D views within Google Earth

Saturday, July 28th, 2007

I’ve always been interested in alternatives to standard 2-dimensional photos and through the years have played with everything from multiple photo collages (like Hockney’s) to Apple’s QuickTime VR. Now there’s a way to plug panoramas into Google Earth, thanks to the creativity of Andrew Hudson-Smith from University College London, made visible at his [...]

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