Saturday, January 31, 2009

Photosynth - It's not just for inaugurations...

You may have seen the "Photosynth" panorama of President Obama's inauguration on CNN.com. If not, Photosynth is a tool developed by Microsoft which allows you to upload a series of photos of a particular scene, and the Photosynth software stitches them together into one big, navigable, 3D panorama.

Here's a couple that I made from aerial photos taken with my RC plane. I made these just to experiment with the software, but now that it's gaining popularity after the inauguration, I'm going to have to make some more.

Beautiful Sedona, Arizona:


South Mountain in Phoenix, Arizona:

More Aerial Videos from my RC Plane

You can view these directly from the embedded videos below, but it's much better to follow their links and watch them in high resolution on the Vimeo site...


Super Cub over Cesar Chavez Park and High School from Clipper453 on Vimeo.


Touch and Go from Clipper453 on Vimeo.


Air-to-Air from Clipper453 on Vimeo.


Air-to-Air Redux from Clipper453 on Vimeo.