Some rather brilliant imaging tech from Microsoft

The company’s Photosynth technology has been public since 2006, and while it’s been cool (placing photos into 3D space), I haven’t seen it gain traction in its original form or as a free panorama m…

via John Nack on Adobe: http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2013/12/some-rather-brilliant-imaging-tech-from-microsoft.html

the technology calculates a smooth path – like a Steadicam – through the locations for each photo, and then slices the images into multi-resolution pyramids for efficiency