Two memes to combine here.
- Sameer Agarwal, a computer scientist at the University of Washington can produce 3D visual reconstructions of cities based on the thousands of freely available two dimensional JPEG files available on the internet.
- I’ve been going through my late father’s photos and slides. You know the drill: decades old scenes filled with people you don’t know. My wife is doing her late mother’s 8 mm movies too.
Here’s a prediction. In a few years you’ll be able to input a bunch of photos, slides, or films - of that picnic from 1957, or birthday party from 1974 - into software that will be able to produce a 3D simulation of the event that you can “fly” through, rotate, and so on.
Via New Scientist.
