Microsoft recently released 
an online application called Photosynth which allows the users to share & experience their photos in an amazingly new way. Photosynth takes a bunch of normal photos and recreates the scene in a 3-D environment. Users need to download a Photosynth software for creating & viewing synths. Every user gets around 20GB of free space for storing their synths. At present, there are no options for creating private synths; all the synths will be available for public viewing.
To see the real power of Photosynth, you need to upload photos with common elements while creating your synth. Photosynth then analyzes the photos for similarities & reconstructs the subject. After uploading the photos through the desktop Photosynth application, it will give you a ‘synth (connection)’ percentage of your photo collection. Photosynth will not be of much use if the photos in your collection are not connected with one another.
Currently, the Photosynth application works only on machines running Windows XP or Vista. They will be supporting more platforms, including Mac (the most popular one among the photographers) in their future releases.
Below is a list of top ten synths of my choice in no particular order.
- National Geographic’s Taj Mahal
- Photosynth Team
- The Grand Canal by Vaporetto
- National Geographic’s Stonehenge
- NASA’s Space shuttle synth
- Smith Tower
- Temple of Heaven, Beijing
- National Geographic’s Sphinx & Pyramids
- Red Ferrari 575 Complete
- Guitar workshop
