Project Photofly v2 Released For Download

Today the free technology preview of the second release of Project Photofly was released for download from Autodesk Labs http://www.autodesk.com/photofly.
20+ Years of Design, Technology & More
20+ Years of Design, Technology & More

Today the free technology preview of the second release of Project Photofly was released for download from Autodesk Labs http://www.autodesk.com/photofly.
Have to give props to Gizmodo for making my blog cry like a little girl this afternoon. The traffic went nuts when they mentioned my blogs link in their story about the upcoming Autodesk Labs Project Photofly v2.
An article by MIT Technology Review today details more background about the upcoming Autodesk Project Photofly version 2 with an interview of Vice president of Autodesk Labs, Brian Mathews. Project Photofly is the free Technology Preview on Autodesk Labs where you can upload photos and they are automatically converted to 3D models.

The much anticipated second release of Autodesk Project Photofly is in the final testing and preparation for being posted for download as a free technology preview. Project Photofly allows you to take photos with a standard digital camera and create 3D geometry.

Recently I was honored to be presenting at the Autodesk University Extension event along with fellow ‘deskers Lynn Allen, Thom Tremblay, Nancy Tremblay, and Jim Cowan at the Digital School in Edmonton Canada. The Digital School is associated with Autodesk Training Center Global e-Training. You may remember Global e-Training if you attended AU 2010 and saw the only two story booth in the exhibit hall.

This week I am capturing several objects in 3D including the world famous Delicate Arch located in Arches National Park in SE Utah. Tomorrow two FARO employees and myself will be hiking up to the Delicate Arch with a 3D laser scanner to capture the Delicate Arch in a 3D point cloud.
Autodesk Labs releases Project ZP web-based compression and uncompression.
Our thinking was simple: Can we make data smaller by adding compute cycles to the compression process? We could, but if we did this on a typical laptop, it would take forever. So why not turn to the cloud? We had our Project Twitch servers already in place, so why not use them as a massive compression/uncompression farm?

A listing of my top 10 features in AutoCAD 2012.

Project Snap saves you serious time looking for content and even managing data inside AutoCAD.

This posts long title should actually be:
Head Scan to 3D using Cloud Computing, The Gallery, The Autodesk Book, One Man at TED 2011 Changing the World, and Learn Something.
Last week the TED 2011 conference was held in Long Beach California. Autodesk was a sponsor and showed several examples of great design and technology at the event. This event showcases the latest in technology, entertainment, and design as expressed by passionate top speakers in the challenging timeframe of 18 minutes. This is the premier gathering of the Thinkers, Makers, and Do-ers sharing ideas and trying to make the world a better place to live.