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Rome was built in a day…

Friday, September 18, 2009

… with hundreds of thousands of digital photos.

University of Washington researchers have developed a computer system to combine tourist photos lifted from the Flickr.com photo-sharing site into a 3D digital model. Using advanced techniques, they were able to ‘build’ a model of Rome from photos tagged with Rome or Roma in just 21 hours.

Read an article about it here, and visit the project’s web ...


Original article from http://www.stoa.org/?p=995
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