Saturday, May 17, 2008

Gigapan

(Funny how I seem to get into a blogging fury on Fridays sometimes. Maybe it's joy of relief of the weekdays' grueling 3-hour workdays being over for me.)

Gigapan gigapixels camera device. (Why are so many web videos right now not compatible with Safari? It's just embarrassing.) Here's a sample. Remarkable.
Technically you can do the same thing manually and then use some good stiching software, but when you get above like ten pictures, it becomes pretty tricky to keep track of what exactly you have already covered, here's where the robot comes in.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

"Why are so many web videos right now not compatible with Safari? It's just embarrassing."
Are you running Flip4Mac and Perian. These two Quicktime Plugins make just about any video compatible.

http://perian.org/

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/wmcomponents.mspx

Eolake Stobblehouse said...

Thank you very much. I'll try that.

Anonymous said...

As you know, panoramas are easy to take and relatively easy to stitch together already - without redundant technology like this.

The real problem comes in displaying the panorama. Flash-based panning/tilting apps look terrible, and are really only useful for specialised purposes.

I've printed some of mine on rolls of photo paper ($$) and they look great - on a wall. Not in a book. Not so good in a PC-based slide-show, either.

Taking them is easy.
Watching them ain't so simple.

They're still fun, 'though.

Cheers from Sydney
Jeff R.

Monsieur Beep! said...

...to Eolake's ...grueling 3-hour workdays...:

My admiration goes to a well-balanced man.

;-)

Eolake Stobblehouse said...

I bear it for the greater good.