GIGA pan image of Obamas inauguration day

[entrangermercenary]

Zoom in on every face in the crowd. See if any 1 is picking there nose :eek:

WOW hi tech stuff !! Its a bit slow loading but let the images clear amazing !!

Click view story right hand side 1st line

http://www.mixx.com/stories/3593643/fullscreen_gigapan_viewer_inauguration_day

[croatiancoffee]

Cool!

[reptilianshapeshifter]

Let's see who was skipping work that day :D

[minaise]

Cool picture. But really weard US flags on that building..

[angel wings]

This is cool, the zoom function is amazing

[onourwayto2012]

Well so much for hiding out in a big crowd! Speaking of big crowds...... an awful lot of chumps there that day.

[tyler]

I couldn't see it! Any other links?

[tom bombadil]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Gigapan-imager.jpg/180px-Gigapan-imager.jpg

http://www.madcrazydaft.co.uk/blog/2009/01/what-is-gigapan/

cool. But not fool proof.

It shows many places where the seam can still be seen. What would be better is a system that takes a series of pictures and then take a load more of the places that has the join but then ignores the movements in the pictures to create a truly mega image. A false one mind, just like the one shown.

What they realy need is a mega mega pixel camera to take just one image.


Tom.

[pacoquerak]

check out bush's getup and he's kind of sitting like a woman

[tom bombadil]

Had another look and if anyone is interested in this sort of thing then you might wish to see howw big the images are before they are pasted together.

Look at the long telephoto lens on the left (white) and noticed that the auto focus was set to the long lens. Around it you can see the blurred background of the wide image.



Tom.

[qasrose]

Who are those 4 men sitting on the right behind Obama wearing the same Black Jackets???? hmmmmm

[chris]

Zoom in on every face in the crowd. See if any 1 is picking there nose :eek:

WOW hi tech stuff !! Its a bit slow loading but let the images clear amazing !!

Click view story right hand side 1st line

http://www.mixx.com/stories/3593643/fullscreen_gigapan_viewer_inauguration_day

reminds me of bladerunner....

[tom bombadil]

Also the inherant problem of a system that pans and scans is evident too!

You see the problems that this has is that when the pic is taken and then the cam moves, then the perspective of the lenses inside the lens unit change in relation to the 'corrected' flat image.

Some examples below.

http://www.nikonweb.com/fisheye/fisheye_6mm.jpg

A traditional fisheye (expected) image

http://k43.pbase.com/u48/boybart/large/40075482.IMG_6990.jpg
Hard to tell

http://roderickphotography.com/blog1/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/Peggys%20Cove0032_RJ.JPG

A fisheye pic that is 'corrected' within the lense housing itself.

The bottom image is what the system uses and it would be fine if the images are shown on their own, but with the gigapan image it has to deal with those corrected edges.


The reason that a larger single chip is not used is due to the fact that for a large chip (the device used to catch the light in a digital camera) to capture an image it has to send a signal to the memory for each pixel, and at present this is not possable. So the chip gets bigger or the pixel gets smaller. The design team meet somewhere in the middle.



Tom.

[chris]

LOL Waky waky fat boy
http://img3.imageshack.us/my.php?image=sleepyyc0.jpg

[rossus]

this technology is great,
i love spying on people :p