Photosynth - Microsoft do something cool shocker

This will be good. The program analyses photos for similar points and then creates a 3d world from them.
You can zoom in to photos with more detail. As more and more photos are added the world becomes richer and adding in your own photos allows you to explore areas around them using other peoples photos.... doesnt makes sense? watch the vid

This combined with google earth and the matrix is but years away!!!*





* Pending the invention of computer to brain interface

Greg Lee: Bachelor of Arts

Woohoo...Got my final exam results and passed.
I now have a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Multimedia Computing.

Time to sign on or work at McDonalds :D

VW Show

A few of us (Laura, Me, Neil, Sarah and Marcus) went to the VW show at Stamford Hall today. Some really nice cars and makes me want one even more. Trouble is time and mechanical skills are against us.
I can just picture me and laura in a split screen camper, a lot like this one....


Mostly original on the outside (has to be lowered, with alloys) but definately not original on the inside. We would have all mod cons, namely flat screen TV's and playstations, not to mention the Subaru engine in the boot.

Check flickr for a few more pics.

We will live the dream!!!

Woohoo!!! Simpsons Movie

Finally after years of speculation as to whether it would happen, The Simpsons movie teaser trailer has appeared in the US before Ice Age 2. It's due out next year!!

I was gonna link to a trailer but they seem to be going down like flies...damn copyright infringement

Update: This one here works for the time being.

Sauze d'Oulx 2006

We have been back a week so I thought I best post about our great time in Sauze. The hotel Orso Bianco located in the Sportinia area was the best I have stayed in for location, friendly staff and good food. The rooms are a good size, views spectacular and they have satellite TV. Lots of little touches like a free 3D piste map, complimentary bottles of wine and tea in proper mugs made it a place I would stay at again.

The resort is not the best we have stayed in. Although the area is big, the 5 main villages are not connected in a snowboard friendly manner with ball crushing drag lifts ready to test your pain threshold should you desire. However the snow and off piste were fantastic, plus the queues were short.

I also pulled off one of the main tricks I vowed I would learn when I started snowboarding - a backside 180. We made a little jump near our hotel, with me and Neil practising on it until we could do them. It's one of the simplist tricks to perform (on a board at least) but one that looks great, hence the reason it's popular.

Check my Flickr photostream for more pics!!!!

Rendering and Visualisation

This week at work I have been chatting to and providing models/info for Jim Mann of Lightwell. Jim is producing some Photo-montages of a site we are currently designing to aid with planning permission.



This image is copyright lightwell

I was very impressed with Jim's work and client list. He actually produced the background animations of the BBC News set..you know the monitors and offices that are behind Sophie and Hugh. I actually thought these were real. Check out some of his other work....talented chap.


While not quite up to the standard of Jim's work I thought I'd post some renderings that me and Paul have produced over the years. I can't claim to have modelled the lorry that's Paul's masterpiece.

I best put that all images apart from shaun the sheep! are copyright Mouchel Parkman

Web 2.0

I thought that while I was'nt told much that I did'nt already know, yesterday's lecture was really interesting. Web 2.0 is linking people and information together that I'm sure the internet's creators never dreamt of.

Take for example 30boxes

Me and my friends are now signed up for the Beta of this new application and while there are still some teething issues, it is proving really useful to me and has allowed me to sync: my computers calendar, which syncs to my phone, with my online calendar, with my friends calendars and now with my blog, so everyone can see what's coming up.

30 boxes and blogger are the Web 2.0 applications I use the most. If I could upload full resolution photos to flickr and have unlimited space I would photocast too. I'm not sure about the whole social bookmarking thing yet though. It's good for getting new links tho!!

Anyone got any other suggestions?