#computational photography

[msmaldesigns]

The Photographer by Mal Richards 2024

[odinsblog]

Wow. (source)

[glitchphotography]

Four attempts at recreating Henri Cartier-Bresson’s “Seville, Spain” using MidJourney’s text-to-image AI

[gyamfieric]

some days

play time with @yussifaljabaar, a kodak brownie automatic, a smoking pipe and some water

[raditsz]

[prostheticknowledge]

Inventory

Project from Oddviz is a collection of images composed of various 3D scanned objects arranged in visually satisfying compositions:

Our ongoing series ‘Inventory’ is a cultural project where we dig the ephemeral characteristics of the public space and street furniture. Photogrammetry enables us to collect objects in detail and it is possible to create compositions using these objects as units.

We started shooting in our own neighborhood (Kadıköy, Istanbul) practicing on methodology & process of capturing objects in wide range, complexity, size and number. As we traveled for other occasions we’ve always captured in order to expand our inventory: We shot on the streets of Manhattan for a week capturing 400 unique street objects such as fire hydrants, utility poles, booths and statues. We shot 150 ancient wells-fountains in Venice and 200 facades-sidewalks in Kreuzberg-Berlin

Public space collects culture constantly as the surfaces are painted with tags, graffiti and covered with stickers. Conditions change with weather, impacts and maintenance. Interferences create uniqueness, but unlike cultural objects under protection in museums or galleries, street furniture is under constant danger of renovation or replacement. Using photogrammetry, we are documenting and protecting street culture in 3-dimensions with high-resolution texture.

During the creation of our first composition of Istanbul street objects, we let the coincidences lead the way. A random arrangement was appropriate referencing the chaotic soul of the city. During the composition of Manhattan inventory, we rather used an arrangement similar to grid based city plan with an emphasis on vertical growth of the city. Venice inventory installed around the Grand Canal and Berlin seeks the german precision.

We are working on other stills and videos as well as online-VR presentations.

You can view the 4K images for yourself here

[prostheticknowledge]

Instant 3D Photography

Research from Peter Hedman of University College London and Johannes Kopf for Facebook can present images with depth from stitching together photos taken from dual-camera smartphones for viewing in VR (and can add extra effects):

We present an algorithm for constructing 3D panoramas from a sequence of aligned color-and-depth image pairs. Such sequences can be conveniently captured using dual lens cell phone cameras that reconstruct depth maps from synchronized stereo image capture. Due to the small baseline and resulting triangulation error the depth maps are considerably degraded and contain low-frequency error, which prevents alignment using simple global transformations. We propose a novel optimization that jointly estimates the camera poses as well as spatially-varying adjustment maps that are applied to deform the depth maps and bring them into good alignment. When fusing the aligned images into a seamless mosaic we utilize a carefully designed data term and the high quality of our depth alignment to achieve two orders of magnitude speedup w.r.t. previous solutions that rely on discrete optimization by removing the need for label smoothness optimization. Our algorithm processes about one input image per second, resulting in an endto- end runtime of about one minute for mid-sized panoramas. The final 3D panoramas are highly detailed and can be viewed with binocular and head motion parallax in VR. 

Our tech stitches bursts of depth images from dual-camera phones into 3D panoramas, which look great in VR. The capture and processing is so quick and fast that you can now easily take 3D vacation shots when traveling.

More Here

[prostheticknowledge]

3ddd.party

Latest development of digital dancing project from FuzzyWobble now features a portable lightweight 3D scanner for participants to be converted into 3D models, which can be used for party visuals (and even AR):

3DDD.PARTY  is a recent experiment involving 3D body scanning & real-time multidimensional visuals.

Multidimensional possibilities include: →  Real-time VJ Performance  ← →  AR/VR Experiences  ← →  Brand Contextualization  ← →  Hyper Dynamics  ← →  Fictional Textures  ← 

The system is hireable for events - you can find out more here