{"id":1357,"date":"2007-10-17T19:55:15","date_gmt":"2007-10-17T17:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/2007\/10\/17\/gigapan-billions-of-pixels-on-panoramas\/"},"modified":"2007-10-17T19:55:55","modified_gmt":"2007-10-17T17:55:55","slug":"gigapan-billions-of-pixels-on-panoramas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/2007\/10\/17\/gigapan-billions-of-pixels-on-panoramas\/","title":{"rendered":"GigaPan: billions of pixels on panoramas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"left25_box\"><center><a href='https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/gigapan_236x236.jpg' title='GigaPan examples'><img src='https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/gigapan_236x236.thumbnail.jpg' alt='GigaPan examples' \/><\/a><\/center><\/div>\n<p>Photographers are avid of more pixels per frame. Most of them are also fond of panoramic photos (they look so cool). Why not join forces and make a contraption able to shoot panoramas with billions of pixels (<strong>multi-giga-pixel panoramas<\/strong>)?<\/p>\n<p>This is what Charmed Labs and Carnegie Mellon University did when they developed the GigaPan robotic camera mount (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmu.edu\/homepage\/collaboration\/2007\/fall\/how-cool-is-that.shtml\">Press release<\/a>). Rather than stitching together hundreds of images painstakingly taken one-by-one, the tripod mount is able to pan through a landscape and capture the individual images needed by a computer program to build these wondrous images.<\/p>\n<p><center><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/sYhwVMB9QYw\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/sYhwVMB9QYw\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sYhwVMB9QYw\">YouTube link<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>In the end, if you want to see more (and browse a lot of panoramic images), you should stop by one of the following web sites:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gigapan.org\/\">GigaPan web site<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.cmu.edu\/~globalconn\/\">The Global Connection Project<\/a> (at CMU)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Not all the images are perfect, but some of them are gorgeous.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href='https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/2007\/10\/17\/gigapan-billions-of-pixels-on-panoramas\/gigapan\/' rel='attachment wp-att-1359' title='GigaPan'><img src='https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/gigapan_mount.jpg' alt='GigaPan' \/><\/a><br \/><font size=\"-2\">GigaPan motorised mount on a tripod. It hold nearly any kind of digital SLR camera and pans slowly to capture a full panoramic image.<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/center><\/p>\n<p>The GigaPan is not currently available yet but could be no more than a few hundreds of dolalrs, and work with <em>open source<\/em> software (so, free software).<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.futura-sciences.com\/fr\/sinformer\/actualites\/news\/t\/technologie-1\/d\/des-milliards-de-pixels-sur-une-photo_13011\/\">Futura-Sciences<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photographers are avid of more pixels per frame. Most of them are also fond of panoramic photos (they look so cool). Why not join forces and make a contraption able to shoot panoramas with billions of pixels (multi-giga-pixel panoramas)? This is what Charmed Labs and Carnegie Mellon University did when they developed the GigaPan robotic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13231,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,48,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photo","category-record-images","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}