Crowd Counting tools at Beck-Palin Rally (noon) - Photosynth
Here’s a groovy interactive display showing how AirPhotosLive’s experts calculated a crowd size of 87,000 at Glenn Beck’s Magical Restoration Sideshow last weekend:
Here’s a groovy interactive display showing how AirPhotosLive’s experts calculated a crowd size of 87,000 at Glenn Beck’s Magical Restoration Sideshow last weekend:
12 comments
1 | deranged cat Thu, Sep 2, 2010 3:24:54pm |
already seeing excuses for why the number could be higher:
there were people packed in under the trees to escape the sun.
The exclusion of those two areas of dense crowd attendance makes the entire assessment process suspect at best.
people were packed in to get shade... it was HOT in the sun.
2 | Jeff In Ohio Thu, Sep 2, 2010 3:44:00pm |
re: #1 deranged cat
already seeing excuses for why the number could be higher:
Except they counted people under the trees.
What they missed were all the people flying around on their Unicorns.
3 | Jeff In Ohio Thu, Sep 2, 2010 3:47:28pm |
For the inevitable Corn Flake assault:
The balloon, Westergard said, gave the company the capacity to move up and down, allowing it to photograph people who were standing beneath trees in addition to taking photos from high above.
[Link: www.cbsnews.com...]
5 | Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Thu, Sep 2, 2010 4:01:02pm |
I will not be swayed by what is clearly commie/leftist technology.
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6 | Intenzity Thu, Sep 2, 2010 4:11:42pm |
frowny.
Need Silverlight to see it, so some of us Mac users don't get to see.
7 | Jeff In Ohio Thu, Sep 2, 2010 4:15:46pm |
re: #6 Intenzity
frowny.
Need Silverlight to see it, so some of us Mac users don't get to see.
Silverlight was happy to install on my mac, I was happy to say no thanks.
8 | Our Precious Bodily Fluids Thu, Sep 2, 2010 5:14:30pm |
OMG we were being watched and recorded by "Barack" Duane Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho Hussein Obama so the death panels would know how big they needed to dig the mass graves at the FEMA concentration camps!!!1shift1~0x01
9 | Killgore Trout Thu, Sep 2, 2010 5:21:41pm |
It's a very cool site: Dazu Rock Carvings, Mount Baoding - Chongqing,China
10 | Charles Johnson Thu, Sep 2, 2010 5:45:59pm |
re: #9 Killgore Trout
It's a very cool site: Dazu Rock Carvings, Mount Baoding - Chongqing,China
Some sophisticated technology at work there. I wasted a couple of hours playing with the site.