{"id":316,"date":"2009-03-12T21:09:51","date_gmt":"2009-03-12T21:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/?p=316"},"modified":"2009-03-12T21:13:30","modified_gmt":"2009-03-12T21:13:30","slug":"more-photosynth-goodness-this-time-on-iphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/03\/12\/more-photosynth-goodness-this-time-on-iphone\/","title":{"rendered":"More PhotoSynth Goodness, this time on iPhone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m a bit of a <a title=\"PhotoSynth\" href=\"http:\/\/photosynth.net\" target=\"_blank\">PhotoSynth<\/a> fan, I think it\u2019s a fantastic technology.\u00a0 The iPhone has always seemed like an obvious candidate for a viewer, the touch interface seems ideal for it.\u00a0 <a title=\"Sarahintampa\" href=\"http:\/\/on10.net\/blogs\/sarahintampa\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sarah<\/a> over on <a title=\"on10.net\" href=\"http:\/\/on10.net\" target=\"_blank\">on10.net<\/a> spotted this, and I thought I\u2019d pass it on\u2026 A <a title=\"PhotoSynth\" href=\"http:\/\/photosynth.net\" target=\"_blank\">PhotoSynth<\/a> viewer for the iPhone!<\/p>\n<p>The great news is that the client works really well, you can search for specific synths or topics, and pick from Recent, Most Viewed and \u2018Nice and Synthy\u2019 lists.\u00a0 Once you open up a synth you get the familiar view from one of the camera view points, and can move around the scene from photo to photo.<\/p>\n<p>As well as that though, you can choose to view the point cloud that ties the photos together, and\u00a0 move and zoom around it in 3D.\u00a0 It\u2019s hard to explain, but hopefully the screenshots help.\u00a0 The point cloud is nothing new, you can see it on the PC and Mac views, but it just seems to work better with the iPhone interface.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/isynth.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px\" title=\"iSynth Screenshot\" src=\"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/isynth-thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"iSynth Screenshot\" width=\"319\" height=\"213\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/isynthpointcloud.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px\" title=\"iSynth Point Cloud Screenshot\" src=\"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/isynthpointcloud-thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"iSynth Point Cloud Screenshot\" width=\"318\" height=\"212\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you like PhotoSynth it\u2019s a great little app.\u00a0 It seems the the author <a title=\"Greg Pascale\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.brown.edu\/people\/gpascale\/iSynth\/\" target=\"_blank\">Greg Pascale<\/a> was an intern with the PhotoSynth team at Microsoft last year and he\u2019s written it with the teams approval.\u00a0 Good stuff!\u00a0 How about a viewer for XBox?<\/p>\n<p>You can get iSynth for free from the App Store or from iTunes here:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a title=\"iSynth\" href=\"http:\/\/www.itunes.com\/app\/isynth\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.itunes.com\/app\/isynth<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Greg\u2019s site is here:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a title=\"Greg Pascale\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.brown.edu\/people\/gpascale\/iSynth\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.cs.brown.edu\/people\/gpascale\/iSynth\/<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m a bit of a PhotoSynth fan, I think it\u2019s a fantastic technology.  The iPhone has always seemed like an obvious candidate for a viewer, the touch interface seems ideal for it.  Sarah over on on10.net spotted this, and I thought I\u2019d pass it on\u2026 A PhotoSynth viewer for the iPhone!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[31,121,13,39],"class_list":["post-316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-apple","tag-iphone","tag-microsoft","tag-photosynth","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316","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=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":317,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions\/317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}