(re)building worlds from 360° panoramas

​A single 360° photo captures everything around you: people, signs, surfaces from every direction at once. This workshop treats panoramic images as raw material for creative computation.

​We'll extract text with OCR, detect objects with segmentation, estimate depth, and push these spherical surfaces into 3D realm. From these found artifacts, we'll explore what can be (re)built - found poetry from extracted text, data visualizations, and virtual spaces reconstructed from a single capture.

​We'll work with some 360° photos taken around tiat and from Google Street View. If you have your own 360° photo, bring it and we will find a way to squeeze some extra fun from it!

​Bring a laptop with a recent version of Python installed. Coding experience preferred.

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​This workshop will be led by Yufeng Zhao, a media artist and technologist and graduate researcher at the MIT Media Lab. His recent research explores imagery, data, and dimensionality. He created all text in nyc, a text search engine built from panoramic imagery.

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​tiat is the intersection of art and technology! we are a gallery and place for creative technologists to experiment, exhibit, and expand their practice. ⋆౨ৎ˚⟡˖ Learn more about tiat: https://tiat.place/