VideoTrace

A very promising project from the Australian Centre for Visual Technologies.

“Quoting their site: VideoTrace is a system for interactively generating realistic 3D models of objects from video—models that might be inserted into a video game, a simulation environment, or another video sequence. The user interacts with VideoTrace by tracing the shape of the object to be modelled over one or more frames of the video. By interpreting the sketch drawn by the user in light of 3D information obtained from computer vision techniques, a small number of simple 2D interactions can be used to generate a realistic 3D model. Each of the sketching operations in VideoTrace provides an intuitive and powerful means of modelling shape from video, and executes quickly enough to be used interactively. Immediate feedback allows the user to model rapidly those parts of the scene which are of interest and to the level of detail required. The combination of automated and manual reconstruction allows VideoTrace to model parts of the scene not visible, and to succeed in cases where purely automated approaches would fail..”
Adrian

The song of 99 bottles of beer

Almost everyone of us has for surely ran into this song. There is nothing special about it except the number of bottles in each verse that decreases until it reaches 0 and then everything starts over - what better example of a "loop".
So why not writing the song in all possible languages we can think about :)

Check it out here

http://99-bottles-of-beer.net/

Enjoy!

Adrian