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Dane Jasper replied on November 26, 2008 03:45 to the update "A fork in the road (An important announcement about I want Sandy)" in I want Sandy:

With a free Web 2.0 application, it's reasonable to say "we can't do this for free anymore, it's going fee, and we'll see if that's enough to keep the doors open". There are, after all costs of hosting.

That said, it's a full shutdown with less than two weeks notice (It's Nov 25th and I was just informed via a twitter from Sandy).

That's just silly, Rael. Why would you agree to let Twitter shut you down so very quickly, when so many people use the service in their daily life?

This certainly is a poor reflection on those who would develop new services and hope that "the community" adopts them. Why should we bother, if we're just going to get dumped when you get some $$$ waved in front of you?

Dane Jasper replied on October 22, 2008 16:55 to the question "Thanks for noticing!" in Sonic.net:

Glad you like that, thanks for noticing!

Dane Jasper asked a question in Sonic.net on October 22, 2008 16:55:

Thanks for noticing!

Go Sonic.net, go! http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20081019/NEWS/810190340

A comment on the question "Does the size of the photo (megapixles) matter" in Microsoft Live Labs:

JackH - does your mouse have a wheel? – Dane Jasper, on October 01, 2008 22:56

Johan Benesch's reply to "Merge point groups to increase 'synthiness'" was just promoted to the most useful! Dane Jasper and 2 other people think it's one of the best replies.

i recently also tried to synth a building.
when i redid the synth with many more pics to better cover the corners
the synthiness dropped ...

since you have pretty good idea which "orphan synths" that have overlap it would be great to be able to give that input to the software.
could be as simple as drag-and-drop one pic in one "orphan synth" to a good overlap with a pic in another "orphan synth".

Dane Jasper replied on October 01, 2008 22:54 to the question "Timeframe for update allowing 'Add Photos/Edit' options?" in Microsoft Live Labs:

David,

One thought. The challenge is two areas that don't meet because there were not quite enough transitional images between them. Your suggestion to take more photos and re-synth is fine, IF the scene is one that can be revisited.

However, often it cannot. For example, a vacation, or something temporary like an event. Or, something which has changed.

The ability to give the synther some hints to help it connect points it can't quite work out sure would be nice.

-Dane

Dane Jasper replied on October 01, 2008 22:45 to the question "Same synth input with different results?" in Microsoft Live Labs:

Yes, I guess that makes sense - but in both cases, I just selected an entire directory full of images, so I'd have thought they'd be in the same order.

-Dane

Dane Jasper marked one of David Gedye's replies in Microsoft Live Labs as useful. David Gedye replied to the question "Same synth input with different results?".

Dane Jasper marked one of Nathanael Lawrence's replies in Microsoft Live Labs as useful. Nathanael Lawrence replied to the idea "Linking synths?".

Dane Jasper replied on October 01, 2008 15:07 to the question "Same synth input with different results?" in Microsoft Live Labs:

Nope - and it's a computer - same input, you'd expect same output, right?

Dane Jasper shared an idea in Microsoft Live Labs on October 01, 2008 06:15:

Linking synths?

Because synths must be so small (300 images or less), it would be real nice to be able to link them together. For example, covering the various rooms of a building. Each room can easily take 100-300 images - then you're in a hall, and there's the next room (a seperate synth, 100-300 images.)

It would be great to have a shared image between the two that let you bridge back and forth, so you could explore entire building interiors.

-Dane

Dane Jasper replied on October 01, 2008 06:10 to the idea "Recreate a 3D scene by High Definition video camcorder" in Microsoft Live Labs:

While I like the idea of MANY more images in a synth, the example you linked to is basically just a video, frame by frame. Where's the up side in that?

Dane Jasper asked a question in Microsoft Live Labs on October 01, 2008 05:52:

Same synth input with different results?

I created two synths with the same 220 images (on accident, because of the "stuck at publishing stage" issue mentioned in other threads here).

The odd bit: One is 93% synthy, the other 99%. One has two 3D groups (I think), and the other has three or four (how DO you tell - and how do you eliminate/merge them?)

The synths:

http://photosynth.net/view.aspx?cid=0...
http://photosynth.net/view.aspx?cid=d...

Any clues?

-Dane

Dane Jasper started following the idea "Merge point groups to increase 'synthiness'" in Microsoft Live Labs.

A comment on the idea "Merge point groups to increase 'synthiness'" in Microsoft Live Labs:

That sounds great - but more than a couple hundred photos and the synther runs out of RAM or otherwise locks up. =( – Dane Jasper, on October 01, 2008 05:37

Dane Jasper started following the problem "Photosynth ran out of memory during processing (8007000E)" in Microsoft Live Labs.

Dane Jasper replied on July 03, 2008 08:44 to the question "Cpanel &c. so I don't have to deal with the paradoxically-difficult Joomla..." in Sonic.net:

The paradoxical difficulty doesn't end once the software is installed. I've played with Joomla in hopes it would be a good CMS for me, but I found it to be really a pain to do simple things. YMMV.

I dig Wordpress.

Dane Jasper set one of Augie's replies as an official response to "Cpanel &c. so I don't have to deal with the paradoxically-difficult Joomla..." in Sonic.net

Dane Jasper replied on July 02, 2008 15:16 to the question "setting up a website" in Sonic.net:

Yes, Sonic.net has a slick one-click installer for Wordpress. Wordpress is a flexible blogging system that allows you to build a site, customize it's look, add extensions (called plug-ins), etc.

You can set up Wordpress and get started here:

https://sonic.sonic.net/members/wordp...

Dane Jasper replied on March 21, 2008 06:45 to the question "Blogger.com doesn't load Zemanta extension" in Zemanta:

Where did you get the extension? Their website seems to say "coming soon", sorta.