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/
circuits/10next.html?oref=login

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.