Ben Kacyra: Ancient wonders captured in 3D
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- Опубліковано 8 лис 2011
- www.ted.com Ancient monuments give us clues to astonishing past civilizations -- but they're under threat from pollution, war, neglect. Ben Kacyra, who invented a groundbreaking 3D scanning system, is using his invention to scan and preserve the world's heritage in archival detail. (Watch to the end for a little demo.)
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Years from now, we will look back and see how important Ben Kacyra's work was! He's really making history right now!
This is a very inspiring project and it's great to see that people have come up with creative ways to make digital representations of ancient monuments so that we can preserve them in a way.
it's awesome that there are people like this
Wow, this is fantastic!
wow this is amazing, now all historical heritages can be preserved and saved for the people that will come an incredible idea indeed.
A man truly worth admiraition! what he says is the truth, our heritage is so important that most of us don't realize how great and and beautiful our heritage is, warm and sincere applause to him!
@justicetrooper Laser scanning has been in use for some years, and some games already employ it, for example, iRacing has laser scanned versions of real-life racetracks, and so does LiveForSpeed.
It's funny how often it happens that once you find out about a problem, you'll often find out rather rapidly that someone has already thought of a solution and is in process of applying it.
@JustPlaneNuts Most recent video games (especially racing games) all use laser scanning for tracks and cars. It's a common modeling method nowadays :)
@Neylonx - Check out the "making-of" video for that song on their channel.
Why isn't there any description of the video/talk, as usual?
@FatLingon what you are talking about is called SLAM (Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping), it gives the ability to create continual 3D models (more like a large 3D map) as the camera moves around.
You'll finds lots of videos of the concept in action here on youtube.
The work people are doing with the Kinect is especially interesting, eg:
watch?v=kvAnGlIokbE
watch?v=quGhaggn3cQ
Our cultures captured for the foreseeable future by a man with a vision.Excellent !
Very impressive.
3:55 "George, you have something hanging from your nose."
Now just imagine the idea of just furthering this concept. Instead of just mapping objects forward. Combine it with sonar projection. Voila we can now map buildings and detect things inside buildings from a distance. Just a nice thought.
Even though this was impressive in it's own right, I'd like to think of this technology as in it's infancy.
Imagine a device like this but hundreds of times more powerful. Faster so it can record movies or scan while moving, and higher resolution so that it can be used at larger distances. Mount it on satellites in orbit around earth(or other planets), or have the google-cars drive around collecting city data while simultaneously taking normal photos for textures.
Now... Imagine a good 3D projector in a museum in your city.
Imagine the potential for gaming and virtual 3D worlds!
cool where i can download or see these 3d ancient wonders
cyark.org
@Toposk8
that's exactly what first came into my mind loL!
That touches me.
What does such kind of apperatus cost?
This was neat.
I think that's Rembrandt's house in Amsterdam at 1:43.
In one of the Ironman movies, Tony Stark uses some miniature device to make a virtual 3d model of a crime scene... It's crazy to think that that technology is here now and is yielding economic benefit while preserving human history and culture. What a time to be alive
@akazombie He started the foundation, and probably chose the name to mimic his surname. For example he could have chosen DigArk (digital archive) but the name CyArk resembles his surname more.
I take my hat off to you sir!
This will be amazing for so many things. But I'm most excited for videogames XD
There is a description. Click on "Show More" under the video.
Astonishing. This appears to be the same technology used to create Radiohead's "House of Cards" music video. Very cool stuff.
I hope to see u in Nepal we have a lot of heritage quickly disappearing .
@dreapster i watch this while physically building a context model
@Atemuoh1991 You're saying they used that technology in Assassins's greed?
I wanted to do this years ago. I wanted to use it to scan the inside of caves though.
I was expecting an applause at 9:25 lol
@LudicrousTachyon Google Earth has geolocated 3D structures built in, and the community is continually adding buildings into it freely.
If photosynth could export to KML files, it'd definitely help. Can it?
@rackslap Yes, but it was destiny that Cyber is spelled with a "y" when it could just as well be spelled with an "i". Eh? Eh?
Also, to stay relevant. This TED Talk was great!
wow
@klingon13524 meshing point-clouds into polygons is trivial.
Imagine the possibilities on gaming, you can scan your very own street and play it in a FPS map!
Imagine the games that everybody can make with this technology
Yep, I dig this :)
The fear is, after the preservation of world heritage sites through digital means, we begin to think that it is okay to demolish the sites. After all, we have saved the sites in our thumb drive.
Seems it could also be used to create graphical versions of real environments for video games and movies.
I like photosynth more. People can put their 3D models up for all to see. I can't find any that this guy has done freely available anywhere on the web. If only photosynth could search the internet and put together models itself.
@akazombie i don't get it
Kacyra. CyArk ... Wow... He was born for this.
it's a huge kinect
2 to 3 mm accuracy........wow
so did they reconstruct it or not?? 0__o
Если они еще выложат 3D сканы в общий доступ, многие разработчики видео игр воспользовались бы ими с удовольствием.
@JustPlaneNuts i am saying they should :D
Should be able to fund the project selling 3D models to the movie industry.
Google Street View should buy this laser scaner
real life places in video games?
04:06 - This guy must feel like on a TOEFL test with this clock ticking in front of him :D
0:15 Lblaaaaaa Timmey Göbbelz
too real...
he works for a great cause. i would even say that governments should fund this type of stuff if the times werent bad.
future technology is here
its a kinect only..
@leonidasx666 that's exactly how the terrain data in google earth was captured. From an orbitting satelite bouncing an IR laser off the Earth's surface.
@mindlesstube
It's not that simple sadly.
Google earth works with triangulated meshes and planes. The less planes, the better/faster it works.
This technology works with millions (!) points, which requires a specific software and a powerful CPU/GPU.
Of course you can translate this 3D cloud of points into surfaces, but it will be way to much for Google Earth to handle.
In order to be quick and accessible for all computers it must be oversimplified.
LIDAR tech ftw.
will we know when reality merges with digital?
@TheOrangeSocks
"Hey look! It's the Great Wall of China!"
"NOOOOOOOOOOPE! Ben Kacrya."
@akazombie talking about your joke.
@roidroid I think it's easier to understand if you have dyslexia or play scrabble. Which I don't.
Google Earth needs to put his in a satelite... but I guess the military could have already figured out.
@JustPlaneNuts Assassin's Creed
@akazombie I don't think I'd call that destiny, the fact that a word contains a 'y' instead of an 'i' isn't even a minor coincidence! But whatever.
GTA will never be the same
they should make a deal with google...they could get big money for it :P
1.Merge his projects with a MMORPG game.
2. Profit.
3. Use profits to save more architektural wonders.
reminds me of matrix
3:25 =That World Map is Wrong. Greenland is 1/6 the size of Africa :/
wont this set the precedent that we don't have to worry about it anymore physically, I mean if we keep all our heritage on a hard drive now? what kind of legacy is that for our kids? While I admire the technology to be used to bring these monuments to kids who may never see them in person, but to lose them to "progress" would be a most unfortunate travesty....
Hello 8 year old comments! It is I from the future i am going through a crap pandemic and am going to like all your comments so you get notified.
google earth in 3D!?
Chuck one on a satellite and scan the whole planet!
You can never go home again.
Plssss I’m watching this for my geography class JDFKFBDKEBF
@justicetrooper If nothing else, this technology would reduce the development time of many 3D games.
Giving Chuck Testa a run for his money.
@roidroid SoamI
oh, it's a LADAR... ehm... ok... nothing really new here though... It's good that they use it to preserve landmarks and art, but. Again... not really groundbreaking...
That TED introduction is so hideous...
@rackslap I really just wanted to make that joke, but then you showed up. O.o... I realize you're watching TED and you must be some sort of ScienceGuy (fyi do not mean "scientist") and when I said destiny you were probably like "OMG that's not even real religion politics word vomit bleghhhh!", but yeah... It was a joke. Relax. Get love. Spread love.
very impressive tech, too bad he's just lobbying to further his company here...
GOOGLE EARTH It :D:D:D
@sexyloser and lose a lot of people their jobs :/