The Image Composite Editor from Microsoft Research is a panoramic image stitcher program.
It is used to join a set of overlapping images together from a set of photos of a scene taken from a single camera location. The program uses advanced algorithms to create a seamless, high resolution image which can be saved in a number of different formats.
Simply load a set of images into the application
You don’t need to load them in any particular order, the program will sort out how they should be connected and stitch them together giving very impressive results.
The program is available as a free download.
Details are available at
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/groups/ivm/ICE/
and the download from
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/730cd6bb-6450-4e66-8101-a94e71cb0779/default.aspx
September 29th, 2009
Mick
The Microsoft Web Platform provides a framework, web server, database and tools needed to build and run web-sites and applications on Windows.
One of the problems has always been the difficulty in configuring IIS to use tools such as PHP and MySQL so that you can easily use applications such as WordPress. Now, the Web Platform Installer takes care of all the necessary installation(s) and configuration(s) through (almost) a one-click installation process.
The Microsoft Web Platform Installer 2.0 (Web PI) is a free tool that makes getting the latest components of the Microsoft Web Platform, including Internet Information Services (IIS), SQL Server Express, .NET Framework and Visual Web Developer easy. The Web PI also makes it easy to install and run the most popular free web applications for blogging, content management and more with the built-in Windows Web Application Gallery.
A wealth of information is available from the web-site, check it out at
http://www.microsoft.com/web
I noted that Microsoft has recently announced the first CTP (Community Technical Preview) of the Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio.
Microsoft Robotics products and services enable academic, hobbyist and commercial developers to easily create robotics applications across a wide variety of hardware.
Read more…
Microsoft Live Labs Volta helps developers who build distributed applications on the .NET platform, using the Microsoft development stack (programming languages, libraries, and Visual Studio).
The Volta technology preview is a developer toolset that enables you to build multi-tier web applications by applying familiar techniques and patterns. First, design and build your application as a .NET client application, then assign the portions of the application to run on the server and the client tiers late in the development process. The compiler creates cross-browser JavaScript for the client tier, web services for the server tier, and communication, serialization, synchronization, security, and other boilerplate code to tie the tiers together.
The current version of Volta supports applications that run on the Microsoft CLR, a JavaScript-enabled browser, or a combination of the two.
In essence Volta is a re-compiler. Volta works on MSIL rather than on a textual source language and rewrites MSIL into any number of target languages, including (today) JavaScript and MSIL itself.
Full details and download are available from:
http://labs.live.com/volta/
You don’t need to load them in any particular order, the program will sort out how they should be connected and stitch them together giving very impressive results.
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