Zooming in Photosynth – Wow!

Around one year ago I wasn’t too impressed with Photosynth, Microsoft’s UI prototype for browsing photo collections. But today I decided to give it another go on our new Vista laptop. And yep, while I zoomed on to the details of Gyeongbokgung (nice word, that one), I was amazed. The amount of detail was extremely high, the experience was seamless and had a nice flow to it. 

Check the pic (click to expand):

You can get it here: http://labs.live.com/photosynth

Jumped From Sculpt 3D to Blender – I’m Hooked

In the late 80s, most of the neighbourhood bitboys had an Amiga 1000 or 500. Some of us were interested in 3D rendering with Sculpt 3D or Imagine software.

Raytracing took a long time with a CPU running at 7.1 MHz and 1 MB of memory. So, I left the Amiga run its raytracing overnight – in the morning I would check how the picture turned out to be. Heh, I did not even have a hard disk, so I must have been a patient guy.

Now, I’m amazed about the quality of the open source Blender software. I added YafRay renderer, and I’m hooked. Check out those galleries…