Help Build 3-D Rome

Ever since 2005 computer scientists at the University of Washington in Seattle have been wondering if they can put together a bunch of photos of a place, and reconstruct into a 3-D model. The technique would help the video game industry, the tourism industry, the movie industry, and preserve places for a lifetime. So after a while the team created a program that could make such a model, and decided to attempt to make a 3-D model of Rome using over 150,000 flckr photos. They have created models of Dubrovnik, Croatia using 57,845 photos already in 22.5 hours and one model of landmarks in Venice using 250,000 photos in 60 hours. The Rome project is still underway.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/09/090924-flickr-rome-build-day.html