Last year there was a lot of buzz around the first demos on Microsoft’s Seadragon and Photosynth, now from SIGGRAPH08 comes this rather splendid update to underlying technologies and concepts. There is now a lot more ability for users to navigate and tweak their experience of interacting and browsing a 3D scene using miscellaneous 2D [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Imaging'
Next generation of Photosynth-style image interaction – Bundler
August 18th, 2008 Comments Off
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Modern Times exhibition on Flickr
August 10th, 2008 Comments Off
Last week we started another experiment on Flickr. At the moment we have an exhibition, Modern Times, which is about modernism in Australia. The exhibition is a quite spectacular mix of objects – including a lovely set of milkbar seats to sit on (!!) – and ends with a triple projector immersive audio-visual experience produced [...]
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Commons on Flickr – a report, some concepts and a FAQ – the first 3 months from the Powerhouse Museum
July 21st, 2008 9 Comments
The first three months of having images from the Tyrrell Photographic Collection in the Commons on Flickr have been very interesting. We launched on April 8 with 200 images and have been adding more each week since. At the 12 week mark we had 600 photos uploaded, mostly location photography with just under 50% geocoded. [...]
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The Commons on Flickr: finding the Mosman Bay Falls
June 30th, 2008 Comments Off
Whilst we are collating the data to report on the Museum’s first three months in the Commons on Flickr, I’ll share one of the best stories to come from the project for us so far – the story of finding the Mosman Bay Falls. Amongst our photographs we found two images simply titled ‘Mosman Bay [...]
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Mobile augmented animals – Wellington Zoo
June 2nd, 2008 2 Comments
One of the really wild things at Museums and the Web 2007 was a demonstration booth from the National Science Museum, Japan. At the booth were a series of paper pop up dinosaurs. By themselves the dinosaur popups were impressive but once a consumer grade webcam was pointed at the paper cutouts they came to [...]
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Brooklyn joins the Commons, we hit the 500 mark
May 30th, 2008 1 Comment
The Brooklyn Museum have just joined the Commons on Flickr and some of the material they’ve released is spectacular. Amongst the highlights are some amazing lantern slides of Egypt as well as colourised photographs from the Paris Exposition in 1900. Some of the colourised images are quite surreal. Brookyln have also released some of them [...]
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Conversation, the Commons, museum futures, and ‘architectures of participation’
May 27th, 2008 Comments Off
This is a long and sprawling post and comes off the back of two weeks of presentations around the country and a lot of discussions about the ‘future of museums’. Perhaps find a comfortable chair and a hot beverage. Checking my RSS feeds this morning I came across this piece from the Boston Globe which [...]
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Commons on Flickr – one month later
May 6th, 2008 3 Comments
Our experiment with the Commons on Flickr continues and barring a few hours delay we have managed to keep to our promise of 50 new images a week. We’re up to 400 images now with the most recent 50 going live this morning. 158 of these have been geotagged. Some statistics: – we’ve been added [...]
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50 new images on the Commons on Flickr
April 16th, 2008 2 Comments
As promised we’ve just added another 50 historical images from our Tyrrell Collection to the Commons on Flickr. In the first week we had nearly 20,000 views and an enormous amount of tagging and ‘favouriting’ activity combined with many congratulatory messages and support for the Museum’s release of these images into the Commons. The new [...]
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Powerhouse Museum joins the Commons on Flickr – the what, why and how
April 8th, 2008 7 Comments
Yes, you read that right. The Powerhouse Museum is the first museum to join the Commons on Flickr! And we’re excited because it went live today! In the tradition of ‘slow food’ we have decided to do a slow release of content with an initial 200 historic images of Sydney and surrounds available through the [...]
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