AARON RICADELA  writes in the NYTimes Circuits section of an interesting piece of software that could give infographic artists/reporters a fast leg-up on reporting a variety of "interior" stories.  See March 10, 2005 http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/10/technology/
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ORENSIC experts who reconstruct crime scenes want to produce detailed drawings that can stand up in court without disrupting sensitive evidence. But creating hand-drawn sketches and taking photographs can take days and disturb the scene. Computer-aided design packages that require investigators in the field to enter data can be cumbersome, and results can be difficult for jurors to decipher.

Now, a Canadian company is demonstrating prototype software, based on advances in computer vision, that can stitch together a few seconds of video from a hand-held stereo camera into a detailed 3-D model of a room, including the people and the objects in it. Using Windows on a laptop, the police or courtroom workers can zoom around the model to view it from different perspectives, or click on its features to see sizes, relative distances, areas and angles.

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