Bob, their photos were skimmed off Flicker, who says you'll be asked? > If Google takes a photo from space of Cotty lying naked in his garden, > and this software merges it with a picture taken a couple of years ago > of the previous owners lying naked in the next spot, what will people > think they're seeing? Now that's a very disturbing image...
Bob W wrote: > It's very impressive technically, despite terms like 'visual photos' > and 'visual cameras', but I don't think you need to be disturbed. I > don't expect you'll be forced to contribute your pictures to it > against your will (they are still copyright after all), and your > pictures' intended use and context remains as long as you preserve it. > > The presenter didn't mention anything about time, which is an > important part of how we see a photo. A picture represents its subject > matter in a small fraction of a second, but the composite of Notre > Dame is not built from pictures taken in the same fraction of a > second, so it represents something that never existed. At best it's an > approximation of Notre Dame (as any picture is, of course). I wonder > how it deals with times when there's scaffolding on the building, or > rainy days versus sunny days, or pictures taken in 1943 versus > pictures taken this morning. > > If Google takes a photo from space of Cotty lying naked in his garden, > and this software merges it with a picture taken a couple of years ago > of the previous owners lying naked in the next spot, what will people > think they're seeing? > > It should raise some interesting questions. > > Bob > > >> I'm finding this somewhat disturbing. Your hard won >> photographs are now >> nothing more than data. Your intended use and context is >> > forgotten... > >> Maybe that doesn't disturb anyone else... >> >> Bong Manayon wrote: >> >>> Here's another link that caught my attention... >>> >>> >>> >> http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2007/06/05/ted-2007-microsoft-sead >> ragon-and-photosynth/ >> >>> "Metaverse...!?!" >>> >>> > > > -- Vote for Cthulhu. Why settle for a lesser evil... -- Dr. Jerry Pournelle -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
