About a year ago I wrote about the Photosynth technology from Microsoft that creates 3D spaces from collections of photographs. At the time it only worked with a few sample data sets created by Microsoft, but there was a very nice demo to download and it was a pretty exciting piece of tech. Just a [...]
Entries from August 24th, 2008
Photosynth goes live!
August 24th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Computer Graphics, Photography
Tags: 3D·photosynth
3 Peaks Challenge – Part 2: The hikes
August 18th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Google Earth/Maps, Life, Photography
In this second article on my recent 3 Peaks challenge I describe the hikes themselves and the transits between the mountains. See Part One for a description of the challenge.
My personal times were:
Mountain
Start
Summit reached
Back at base
Distance
Ben Nevis
5pm
7-50pm
10pm
10 miles
Scafell Pike
4-30am
6-30am
8-30am
6 miles
Snowdon
1-45pm
4-10pm
7-30pm
8.5 miles
So as you can see I did succeed and completed it – I got to [...]
3 Peaks Challenge – Part 1: Overview
August 14th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Life, Photography
On the weekend of June 20th I took part in the national Three Peaks Challenge to try and climb the three highest peaks in the UK mainland within 24 hours. Starting off at Ben Nevis (1344m) in Scotland, I also climbed Scafell Pike (978m) in the Lake District, and ended up at Mount Snowdon [...]