Rome was built in a day…
Friday, September 18th, 2009… with hundreds of thousands of digital photos.
University of Washington researchers have developed a computer system to combine tourist photos lifted from the Flickr.com photo-sharing site into a 3D digital model. Using advanced techniques, they were able to ‘build’ a model of Rome from photos tagged with Rome or Roma in just 21 hours.
Read an article about it here, and visit the project’s web page here.