{"id":1199,"date":"2007-06-17T11:00:15","date_gmt":"2007-06-17T16:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1199"},"modified":"2007-06-25T10:19:39","modified_gmt":"2007-06-25T15:19:39","slug":"photosynth-demo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1199","title":{"rendered":"Photosynth demo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reader Telas sent this link along.  It&#8217;s a demo of some new software.  As a professional software developer myself, I feel I need to add my own unique viewpoint and share my expert opinion: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/index.php\/talks\/view\/id\/129\">Oh holy crap wow!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>That really is cool.  The ability to visually cruise through different media and zoom in and out looks like something truly useful.  I&#8217;ve seen many misguided attempts to visualize a bunch of files, but I&#8217;ve never seen any that looked like more than a gimmick.  They don&#8217;t give the system specs for the machine performing the demo, so I suspect it&#8217;s some overpowered monster with a hojillion kabillion megabytes of memory, but if such a thing could ever run that smooth on a machine owned by mortals, I&#8217;d get it in a second.<\/p>\n<p>(I will say that things like this make me want to hang up my hat as a programmer.  There are some frighteningly brilliant people out there, and if I dedicated the rest of my life to honing my skills I doubt I could come within cruise missile range of something like this.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reader Telas sent this link along. It&#8217;s a demo of some new software. As a professional software developer myself, I feel I need to add my own unique viewpoint and share my expert opinion: Oh holy crap wow! That really is cool. The ability to visually cruise through different media and zoom in and out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}