{"id":255,"date":"2009-01-26T23:06:13","date_gmt":"2009-01-26T23:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/?p=255"},"modified":"2009-01-26T23:08:46","modified_gmt":"2009-01-26T23:08:46","slug":"the-moment-in-photosynth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/01\/26\/the-moment-in-photosynth\/","title":{"rendered":"The Moment&#8230; in Photosynth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the Obama inauguration taking up so much news time last week I thought one of the more interesting takes on the event was CNN\u2019s \u2018<a title=\"The Moment - CNN\" href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/SPECIALS\/2009\/44.president\/inauguration\/themoment\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Moment<\/a>\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>They encouraged people to send in their photographs of the inauguration which they are plugging into Microsoft\u2019s <a title=\"Photosynth\" href=\"http:\/\/photosynth.net\" target=\"_blank\">Photosynth<\/a> technology.\u00a0 The result is the a set of three scenes, two are the usual 3D compositions of the actual event in Washington, but the third \u2013 to my mind at least \u2013 is far more interesting.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-top-width: 0px; display: block; border-left-width: 0px; float: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; border-right-width: 0px\" title=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/image-thumb.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" width=\"355\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As well as photos from people that were there, there are also photos from people who were watching at home on television.\u00a0\u00a0 It looks like Photosynth has picked up on the common image on the screen and used this as the basis for building the scene.\u00a0 The result is a fascinating look at how people watched that moment, whether in their local bar or on big screens in a school gym.\u00a0 I wonder whether this is something <a title=\"Blaise Aguera y Arcas talks at TED\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/index.php\/talks\/blaise_aguera_y_arcas_demos_photosynth.html\" target=\"_blank\">Blaise Aguera y Arcas<\/a>\u00a0 and the guys thought about when they thought up Photosynth or whether it\u2019s just a happy accident?\u00a0\u00a0 Either way, check it out <a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/SPECIALS\/2009\/44.president\/inauguration\/themoment\/moment3.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the Obama inauguration taking up so much news time last week I thought one of the more interesting takes on the event was CNN\u2019s \u2018The Moment\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[213,13,183,39,214],"class_list":["post-255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home","category-tech","tag-cnn","tag-microsoft","tag-obama","tag-photosynth","tag-the-moment","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":256,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions\/256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}