How many Flickr users does it take to recreate Rome?
By now you're probably thinking 'that's an incredibly long time to render' - however the team is touting the speed of the 3D model building here too. The technology used in Microsoft's PhotoSynth product (which also originated at the same research lab) would have taken a calendar year to automatically build the same 3D model of Venice.
Be sure to take a look at the video tours over on the Popular Science Web site, and see the end results from Flickr's library - the team have set their sights on a million-image based rendering of a city in the future, so hopefully there's plenty more of these to come!
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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