http://www.spikedhumor.com/articles/109486/New_Image_Technology.html
Just want to comment on this video and bring it to peoples attention in case no one saw this or heard about it. This is a program or system of sorts that allows a user to make use of any data on the internet and construct virtual environments based on the metadata available on different subjects. One instrance in the video shows a historical building constructed by using all the available pictures taken by random people of that particular building.
This guy mentions it as the metaverse, and I thought it was really interesting especially since this idea is very novel and very practical and makes use of already available information. By using all the available data on the internet you can create complete virtual environments based on metadata, hence metaverse....or maybe the metanet? :*) I'm excited, I don't know about anyone else. Um...its cool but it would take a year for an average PC to render. And what about abstract art not based on Earth? How would that be rendered?
As far as rendering goes yea that is very true, but I think their goal for now is to allow users to use the program through the internet...at least that's how it sounded in the video, sorry if I'm wrong. And that would be very cool since obviously that would be an issue for most users.
I only know as much as the video explains, but it seems to me that artforms of any kind would be able to be identified by this program. They seem to be suggesting more though that this program can be used to create virtual environments viewable to the public using public images from users and companies alike. As far as works of art goes, they are images like any of the others shown in the video so I don't see why it'd be too much of a problem. Good question, I'd love to know more.
| cornga56 wrote: |
As far as rendering goes yea that is very true, but I think their goal for now is to allow users to use the program through the internet...at least that's how it sounded in the video, sorry if I'm wrong. And that would be very cool since obviously that would be an issue for most users.
I only know as much as the video explains, but it seems to me that artforms of any kind would be able to be identified by this program. They seem to be suggesting more though that this program can be used to create virtual environments viewable to the public using public images from users and companies alike. As far as works of art goes, they are images like any of the others shown in the video so I don't see why it'd be too much of a problem. Good question, I'd love to know more. |
One day I hope they make a holodeck like star trek. That never made sense to me, as you could always die in the holodeck. Also, the worlds inside were much huger than the actual holodeck.I think a holodeck will be a practical idea in the future, I mean especially as far as entertainment goes, how much would people love going to see a holo movie....just like on star trek, haha. Yea and what is the deal with dying in the holodeck? You ever see them walking in a straight line for like a mile and never hit a wall? hahah
| cornga56 wrote: |
| You ever see them walking in a straight line for like a mile and never hit a wall? hahah |
It is because the artificial environment is moving with the person. Like a treadmill, you can walk for miles and never go anywhere.
Respectfully,
M | Moonspider wrote: |
| cornga56 wrote: | | You ever see them walking in a straight line for like a mile and never hit a wall? hahah |
It is because the artificial environment is moving with the person. Like a treadmill, you can walk for miles and never go anywhere.
Respectfully,
M |
ah duh! ...lol. 
It's great!!
In my opinion, this new technology will familiar in the future.
Thanks.
looks pretty good. would love to have a machine like that
That guy's speech from MS is only the tip of the iceburg.
It's called High Performance Computing (HPC).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-performance_computing The concept was in Tom Clancy's Net Force series where metaphors were used, for example going through the web could be going through a city. The other traffic is represented by cars. In another example, an email exchange was represented by a monastery with many cubbyholes. In Crichton's Disclosure, the database could be gone through as if it were a huge room with filing cabinets. You could see the original data, or see how the computer represents it with graphics. I think it is a neat idea, however, it does run into a few problems, such as multitasking. How can you run between multiple tasks, such as watching your email, carrying on a Skype conversation, carrying on another text based chat conversation, doing research, and writing up that research in a word processor.
All of the idea is presented well from the video. Well, all I can say is a good foundation of starting a new trend of information retrieving system. The thing is components are basic but i can see is complicatedly implemented.
Humans can acquire knowledge easily through just viewing an image or set of images that is can really interconnect with which other through sets of parameters, lets say if i search an information about a certain place, thats my parameter, all possible images are popped in the imagery (using of course metadata) and render through a 3D (paranoma) space can you can walk or dive into it (chronologically, structurally, systematically of whatever arrange you want the system to arrange it for you).
So from this standpoint of view, this freaky idea can have a bright future in the coming years to come.
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P.S. And yes I forgot. I wonder how this genius freak comes up with a set of compression algorithms those images in such a way to that you can zoom in to the most detailed part of the image? and zoom out to the farthest point of view or (VP, vanishing point term of architects). Wow! I mean really wow. And to recomment it just like what others posted from the link "Finally, UFO Technology has arrived". Lol. Odd things that Microsoft sponsored this research.
Those "genius freaks" didn't come up with any new algorithms, it is a technique called "mipmapping" that was invented in 1983 by a man called "Lance Williams". It is a technique which simply uses resized versions of a texture to allow for simulated "blurring" depending on the angle and distance. Without mipmapping many visual anomalies occur such as Moire patterns and visual distortions such as http://www.thg.ru/graphic/20040605/images/pic05.jpg
