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observe . synth
Your next observation, on Friday, March 12th, will be to construct a virtual photo model of a portion of the Marigny-Bywater site. Your virtual model will be created using a technology developed by Microsoft labs called Photosynth (originally Seadragon). You can read more about the technology at Microsoft Live Labs: Photosynth. You will need to explore the Photosynth site in order to create a login, before creating your Photosynths you should explore the existing synths on the site as well as understanding how they are created.
You will develop a synth that expresses your phenomena/installation. It is important that you think critically about how you are using this specific representation medium to express your phenomena/intervention and the site. You will annotate the photographs to highlight site features and active phenomena. It will be necessary to experiment with the annotation process in order to find a successful method that works with photosynth.
Phenomena/Installation Synth
Because synths are particularly sensitive to site features begin to explore what you document and how you create transitions between each area.
- Are you creating one comprehensive view or smaller nodes that we travel between?
- How will you add annotation over your photos that contributes to the site representation?
- Is the synth an overview or experience?
- How is your phenomena/installation expressed?
You will create a blog post explaining your phenomena/installation synth and a link to the synth.
All photos should be resized so that their widest dimension is 1600px.
Photo-Resizing Intructions
Because you will have hundreds of photographs representing the site it will be necessary to batch resize the photos. In order to do this organize the photos you want to use for the comprehensive synth into their specific directories as noted above. Do this step on your computers hard drive, make copies of the photos into these new directories, do not use the original photos because there is a possibility you will write over them when you resize them. We will resize the photos using Photoshop, open Photoshop and follow these directions (directions written for Photoshop CS4):
1. file -> scripts -> image processor this will open a dialog box
2. in the first box select the folder that contains the images you want to convert, start with one of the folders such as the interstitial folder.
3. In the next dialog make sure that save in same location is checked.
4. Then make sure save as .jpg is selected, quality should be set to 8, and then make sure the resize button is checked and the width and height are both set to 1600px.
5. Click RUN. This will resize all of the images in the selected directory and place them in a new .jpg directory.
6. Delete your old photos and move these new .jpg files into the directory.
7 .You will now need to do the same for each directory.
8. Copy your folders up to the server and you are all done…
note: It is possible to do all the directories at once if you click the include subfolders button but this can take a very long time if you have hundreds of high res photos.
Spring 2009 full class SYNTH.
