{"id":1853,"date":"2009-09-17T02:01:05","date_gmt":"2009-09-17T09:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/palblog.fxpal.com\/?p=1853"},"modified":"2009-09-16T17:31:25","modified_gmt":"2009-09-17T00:31:25","slug":"the-end-of-summer-and-building-rome-in-a-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/?p=1853","title":{"rendered":"The End of Summer, and Building Rome in a Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last few weeks we have been sad to see our great crop of summer  interns leave. Yesterday, my intern, Kathleen Tuite, left, and also, coincidentally, <a title=\"slashdotOnRomeInADay\" href=\"http:\/\/tech.slashdot.org\/story\/09\/09\/16\/2026259\/Rome-Built-In-a-Day\" target=\"_blank\">Slashdot picked up<\/a> a project related closely related to her  graduate work. Check out the <a title=\"Building Rome in a Day\" href=\"http:\/\/grail.cs.washington.edu\/rome\/ \" target=\"_blank\">Building Rome in a Day<\/a> website to see  videos of point cloud models for landmark  buildings. The system her colleagues at the University of Washington built makes these models  from millions of photographs found on Flickr.<\/p>\n<p>Also check out a very early version of Kathleen&#8217;s cool <a title=\"Photocity\" href=\"http:\/\/photocity.cs.washington.edu\/game.php\" target=\"_blank\">Photocity game<\/a> that  complements the Building Rome in a Day work. The game encourages people to take photos that will help fill in point cloud models, so the photos collected as people play her game will improve the Building Rome in a Day\u00a0 results. Conversely, her project involves managing many more photos than an average <a title=\"Photosynth\" href=\"http:\/\/photosynth.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Photosynth<\/a> so she will be borrowing and building on the technologies developed by Sameer Agarwal, Yasutaka Furukawa, and the rest of the Building Rome in a Day team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last few weeks we have been sad to see our great crop of summer interns leave. Yesterday, my intern, Kathleen Tuite, left, and also, coincidentally, Slashdot picked up a project related closely related to her graduate work. Check out the Building Rome in a Day website to see videos of point cloud models [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1853"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1853"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1875,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1853\/revisions\/1875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}