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	<description>PhotoSynth&amp;nbsp;is a technology that automatically combines 2D photos into an immersive 3D environment.


In this interview, we talk to Drew Steedly&amp;nbsp;and Joshua Podolak. 

Drew helped develop the&amp;nbsp;&amp;quot;synther&amp;quot; which takes hundreds of images&amp;nbsp;and&amp;nbsp;combines them into a synth.&amp;nbsp;He walks through how they use parallelism and sparse solver equations to optimize synths.

Joshua&amp;nbsp;helped develop the &amp;quot;viewer&amp;quot;, the client application that&amp;nbsp;you use to navigate a&amp;nbsp;Photosynth.&amp;nbsp;He discusses how they&amp;nbsp;use JSON for metadata,&amp;nbsp;how they use the synther point cloud to do&amp;nbsp;random sampling&amp;nbsp;to project&amp;nbsp;images&amp;nbsp;in a 3D plane and how the goal of the
 viewer is to provide an intuitive&amp;nbsp;UX for end users. 
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		<title>Re: Drew Steedly and Joshua Podolak on Photosynth</title>
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			<![CDATA[Is it just me, or is it next to impossible to hear what Drew is saying?<p>posted by Bas</p>]]>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:58:33 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>Re: Drew Steedly and Joshua Podolak on Photosynth</title>
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			<![CDATA[Yeah, for some reason, the audio on this came out really bad. I think perhaps Drew's mic had died in-between the other interviews on Photosynth.<p>posted by Dan</p>]]>
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		<title>Re: Drew Steedly and Joshua Podolak on Photosynth</title>
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			<![CDATA[The camera also seems to focus on the chalkboard. &nbsp;Here is a tip, turn off autofocus and zoom in on your subject. &nbsp;When you have them in frame, set your focus. &nbsp;After it is set you can zoom out and it will stay in focus.
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<div>And, if you guys are going to use the surface computer as an ottoman, I'll trade you for it.</div>
<p>posted by Jsoh</p>]]>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:17:38 GMT</pubDate>
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