The whole is greater than the sum of its parts quote great visualization on youtube
“The whole is greater than the sum of its parts” . The information age was given recently a new visual metaphor for this quote from Greek philosopher Aristotle (384 BC – 322 BC).
This video was generated by combining thousands of photos (the parts) to generate this animated 3D view (the sum) of San Marco Square in Venice (the whole).
Source: http://grail.cs.washington.edu/rome/
“In this project, we consider the problem of reconstructing entire cities from images harvested from the web. Our aim is to build a parallel distributed system that downloads all the images associated with a city, say Rome, from Flickr.com. After downloading, it matches these images to find common points and uses this information to compute the three dimensional structure of the city and the pose of the cameras that captured these images.”
Find more details here: Building Rome in a Day
The group of researchers behind:
• Sameer Agarwal, University of Washington
• Yasutaka Furukawa, University of Washington
• Noah Snavely, Cornell University
• Ian Simon, University of Washington
• Steve Seitz, University of Washington
• Richard Szeliski, Microsoft Research
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