Modern Dystopia

Acma Tap - Military Vespa

Originally uploaded by Gomisan

Wow, I am slack with my France blogs. Well here’s a quick update. As you know, I’m back. So it’s really just a photo upload update, I’ve put some images of the “Acma Tap” or French Military Vespa up on my Flickr account.

This scooter was primarily intended for airborne troops and had a 75mm recoilless gun mounted on it. Just the thing for traffic jams.

I had a great time at the tank museum, but really it needs a full day to explore and I was in a bit of a hurry as my mum and her partner were waiting outside with no interest at all in room after room after room of tanks.

If you ever get a chance, and are a fan of military history this is THE place to check out. I’ll post photos of some of the other tanks and vehicles there soon, I promise!

I’ve been keeping my eyes on Microsoft Photosynth for quite a while now. A pretty amazing bit of technology which I can see all sorts of possibilities for. Anyway, I’d neglected to check it out for a week or so and imagine my surprise when I visited today and found it had gone live with the ability to upload your own photos.

Basically, Photosynth allows you to upload a group of related images and it interprets them, combining them into a 3D mapped environment. So you can see a scene from multiple angles, zoom in on details, or watch a sequence of photos. It has to be seen to be fully appreciated.

I can imagine that soon software like this will also offer full 3D models of your scene, texture mapped. (Yes, I know such software exists, but not with this kind of ease of use).

Of course, I have already had a bit of a play, and some of my experiments are online for you to check out. I will also be taking a good look at my France photos to see if any suit being ‘photosynthed’. I’ve embedded an example below.

Visit to SScooters

Originally uploaded by Gomisan

Wandering around King St Sydney and i happened to come across the scooter shop/workshop run by a fellow Scooterist that i met on the Dubbo scooter run back in 2005. Popped in and had a chat and a beer. Great old garage he’s set up in. Smells brought back great memories of days spent working on Scooters. Off now to catch up with Nina for dinner.

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