Microsoft Research are doing some pretty sexy things with visualization at the moment. I've greatly enjoyed their Image Composite Editor (ICE, now at version 1.4.4) and already extolled the virtues of Photosynth for creating panoramic images from sequences of game rendered stills. Trawling through the iOS App Store on my iPhone I was intrigued to discover an iOS version of Photosynth. This neat little App turns my iPhone into a significantly useful handheld panorama creator, limited only by the relatively low resolution of the iPhone's camera (well on my ageing 3GS anyway). The end results can be uploaded to Photosynth.net for sharing. I think the combination of iOS and Photosynth make a very capable device for capturing landscape and building panoramas. Here, by way of example a bit of playing at Whitby Abbey. I really like the ability to grab panoramas at will, in any circumstance that I can lay my hands on my iPhone, I can see lots of uses for this new toy - now, how can I lay my hands on a new generation iPad...
