Photosynth amazingly networks online photographs

With ever growing multitudes of images collecting online from millions of sources, when one steps back and tries to envision the whole picture, it’s understandably rather difficult. How do these endless numbers of photographs relate, or network to one another? It’s a daunting question, but one that a firm headed by developer Blaise Aguera y Arcas, who created a technology known as Seadragon. was willing to take on with the help of Microsoft, who acquired them last year.

Seadragon is in the business of networking images into a mosaic of human experience. The Microsoft Live Labs application called Photosynth is a step towards that goal. Photosynth uses Seadragon technology to weave pictures together that it finds online (from sources like Flickr, Pbase, etc) and automagically connect them to one another, creating a three dimensional quilt of photographs. Blaise Aguera y Arcas, the architect of the technology, shows off the product at the 2007 TED conference:

It’s a mind-blowing task, and moreso because if it’s ever realized to it’s fullest potential, it could critically change the way we view information (whether it is text, pictures, or video). For a demo of Photosynth, visit the Microsoft Live Labs website and try it out. (Thanks, Clyde)