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+-   Google Earth beaten by autorendering from photos-> on Saturday June 07 2008, @03:05PM Flu

Submitted by Flu on Saturday June 07 2008, @03:05PM
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Flu writes "Sweden's major engineer newspaper NyTeknik writes about a new technology which is used to automatically convert 60.000 aerial photographs of Stockholm, Sweden, into a 3d-world, similar to Google Earth's rendering of major buildings in some US citites.

But unlike Google's laser-measured rendering, this technique took less than 8 days (including the photography) to automatically generate the 3D-model of Stockholm — which includes every building and details as high as individual trees!

The program was developed by C3, a subsidiary of the Swedish defense industry company SAAB together with a PC gaming company called Agency 9.

The complete article is available at http://www.nyteknik.se/nyheter/it_telekom/allmant/article361352.ece (sorry, swedish only), but the 3D-rendering of Stockholm is available as a Java-Appled from the swedish phone-dictionary service Hitta.se at http://www.hitta.se/3d/3d_splash.aspx (tick the checkbox — it's an ordinary disclaimer, and click "Till 3D-kartan")."
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