I’ve pretty much completed the move to my new house now, the room has had all the furniture re-arranged, I’ve bought myself a new chair and covered the walls with posters. All that remains is for me to get some photos of my friends from home printed and stuck in the gaps on the photo wall and to sort out all my paper stuff before term starts. I took those panoramas last night, stitched using Windows Live Photo Gallery. I also uploaded them to an even more advanced Microsoft project – PhotoSynth.

PhotoSynth is a new image technology from Microsoft based around the idea of lots of normal sized photos creating a high resolution 3d space, one that can be moved around in and explored like it were an actual location. With only taking photos from two angles and not being picky about the position of the camera my photos didn’t make a great synth – in fact it split them into 4 3d groups when logically it should be only two. But it can product some impressive results from other works, and I intend to see if I can’t get a single 3d group out of my room, giving a full 360° panorama. So you can view my PhotoSynth or watch the video below for some really impressive stuff shown at the TED talks in May last year.