the Internet provides free access billions of digital photos, but it seems that the scientists did find one useful application. A joint team of researchers from Google and the George Washington University has developed a fully automatic method for creating timelapse movies from ordinary snapshots. The method is applicable to popular tourist locations, whose photos are often published on the services like Flickr and Picasa.

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the Internet provides free access billions of digital photos, but it seems that the scientists did find one useful application. A joint team of researchers from Google and the George Washington University has developed a fully automatic method for creating timelapse movies from ordinary snapshots. The method is applicable to popular tourist locations, whose photos are often published on the services like Flickr and Picasa.

it is Worth noting that scientists developed method proved to be efficient and get with it video actually deserve attention. However, before you can achieve similar results, the team had to sweat: they are sorted by geolocation 86 million photos. Then the images were distributed over time and more or less similar points of photography. Finally, each frame was edited in such a way as to get into the overall color scheme timelapse clip.

Compiled in automatic mode videos are not only exciting, but also useful. For example, they show how the waterfalls, "grow" skyscrapers, the retreating ice. It makes videos popular tools in the hands of geologists, builders and other specialists.