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:: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 ::

Crowd Mapping

Null Device collects some links and quotes extensively on the possibilities of crowd behaviour modelling. (I used to work at a private company that modelled crowed evacuation from buildings and stadiums in exactly this way, interesting to see that academia is playing catch up here.) Some interesting ideas for things to try with emergent systems. A lot of the ideas posited are akin to game play, which reminds me that "the classic urban-planning simulation game, SimCity, has now been released under the GPL."

Labels: Computing, FOSS, Maps, Modelling

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Vacation photos create 3D models of world landmarks

"The big breakthrough here is being able to compute very accurate 3D models from people's vacation photos," said co-author Steve Seitz, a UW associate professor of computer science and engineering. "The long-term vision is to be able to reconstruct the detailed geometry of all the structures on the surface of the Earth. Many people are working toward that goal, but by using online collections this work brings in a whole new source of imagery and level of detail."

Online photo-sharing Web sites such as Flickr and Google are popular because they offer a free, easy way to share photos. Flickr now holds more than 1 billion photos; a search for "Notre Dame Paris" finds more than 80,000 files. The study authors, experts in computer vision, believe this is the world's most diverse, and largely untapped, source of digital imagery.

[via dev.null]

Labels: 3D, Computing, Flickr, Modelling, Photography, Visuals

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