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Laurence replied on August 26, 2008 22:15 to the problem "Create Synth can't login to Windows Live" in Microsoft Live Labs:

I had 3 failures uploading a ~170-photo synth, but the 4th time was ok. One of the failures was due to the laptop's battery dying half way. On reanimation of the computer, the synth appeared to continue ok. Shame it didn't know it would fail.

But I ended up very impressed with 59% – on a set of pics with which I didn't take too much care to make synthy.

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Laurence shared an idea in Microsoft Live Labs on August 26, 2008 22:10:

Calibrating synths
It would be great to have some idea of plans (there must be plans...) of how to calibrate synths with the real world.

Unless I'm much mistaken, PhotoSynth, after successfully creating a synth, still has no idea of the scale or orientation of the scene – let alone any knowledge of latitude and longitude. Even the concept of "up" is only determined, I think, by assuming all photos are approximately the right way up and averaging their up vectors.

It would be great to know what data to record in the field – measuring latlongs of certain points on the scene? – so that we can sync our existing synths later!

Or is the idea to bring all synths into one big synth via their tags?
Laurence started following the problem "Create Synth can't login to Windows Live" in Microsoft Live Labs.