TinEye is a clever new search engine that does reverse searching to help you find duplicates or better copies of an image. This means that you can upload the image you are looking for, or paste in the image URL, and it will find all other versions (duplicates and variations) of that image on the…
“Paris 26 Gigapixels” is a project that has stitched together 2346 single photos of Paris, resulting in a very high resolution (354159 x 75570 pixels!) 360 degree panorama view of the French capital. You can pan manually, or allow it to play on a beautiful slow pan (accompanied by contagious Parisian music); you can zoom…
ARTstor announced they have fixed the OIV compatibility issue with Mac OS 10.6 (Snow Leopard). For more information and download instructions, click here. Note: ARTstor recommends deleting any previous installation of OIV you have on your computer first (to do this, simply drag the existing OIV icon from your Applications folder to the trash, then…
Steve Tatum, Visual Resources Curator at Virginia Tech, has taken some beautiful and instructional images of Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest, the president’s personal retreat near Forest, VA, and has uploaded them on Flickr. The estate, begun 1805 or 1806, is being extensively restored in the same order that Jefferson built it. These photos show the…
A new website targeted at travelers can have some great applications for historians as well. Arounder lets you pick a building or site and view it in the round. It works with Google Maps to help you find a site (or you can choose from a list of highlights and virtual tours) – double-click on…
The Urban Simulation Team at UCLA is working on some really interesting projects that recreate environments at levels from satellite imagery to the finest details, and even video tours. Their biggest project is Virtual LA, an attempt to recreate the entire Los Angeles area, which will have numerous uses for architects and urban planners. Other…