Creating photo mosaics with Yahoo! BOSS image search

Article that describes how to use Yahoo!’s BOSS (Build your Own Search Service) to search for images and Ruby to create a photo mosaic building program that stitches together a mosaic from any number of photos.

Sterren kijken met WorldWide Telescope

Sterren kijken op je PC met de WorldWide Telescope van Microsoft. Het lijkt op de Sky optie van Google Earth maar dan uitgebreider, met o.a. tours en meer bronnen met afbeeldingen.

Lotus Symphony, gratis office pakket van IBM

IBM brengt het gratis office pakket Lotus Symphony uit. Niet de opvolger van het DOS programma met dezelfde naam, maar een pakket gebaseerd op OpenOffice.org.

AutoStitch, create panoramas automatically

A few days ago I put a link to AutoStitch in my linklog and today I tried the software to see what it can do.
I started the program, openend three photos and the program started calculating. The resulting image was amazing. Without any work from me, no rough positioning, no ordering of images, no point-to-point alignment a great panorama was created!

Here’s an image I created with AutoStitch from a few photos:

I’ve been looking for a program to quickly create panoramas and this really is a great program. At the moment it’s a freely available demo.