Google Earth Beaten By Autorendering From Photos

[Amr-3DT]

Sweden's major engineer newspaper NyTeknik writes about a new technology which is used to automatically convert 60.000 aerial photographs of Stockholm, Sweden, into a 3d-world, similar to Google Earth's rendering of major buildings in some US cities. But unlike Google's laser-measured rendering, this technique took less than 8 days (including the photography) to automatically generate the 3D-model of Stockholm

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[TheCheshireCat]

Wow, very cool. I keep getting amazed by today's technology.
Makes me happy about my choice to study physics all the more