Championship Gigapans

[dlavery]

Originally Posted by Sean Schuff

Sweet pictures but when you zoom in some of the people look like they're only half there. Sort of like how I feel after a season of FIRST!

Some of the people ARE only half there!

That is an artifact of the method by which the images are captured. For the plaza image above, it took about 30 minutes to take the 280 sub-images that are embedded in the final version. Obviously, things move during that time. The "partial people" you see are people that moved throughout the scene as successive images were captured.

Could the project have developed a camera that would capture the entire scene in one shot, and thereby avoided the inter-frame motion problem? Yes, but the resulting device would cost about $1.7 million per unit. To get this device down to a price of about $700 per unit (including the consumer-grade digital camera), a few trade-offs had to be made.

-dave


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[Tapoore]

So, when are we going to see the ones you took during Einstein?

[XaulZan11]

Woah, those are really nice pictures. It's almost like I'm there!

Have you used the panorama/stitch feature on Photoshop CS3? If so how does this compare to that?

[Bcliff358]

I believe i see Rick James in a tuxedo. Weird.

[Libby K]

Thanks, Dave! These are really freakin' sweet.

[JesseK]

This is the ultimate Where's Waldo...

[Nate Laverdure]

Originally Posted by dlavery

To get this device down to a price of about $700 per unit (including the consumer-grade digital camera), a few trade-offs had to be made.

Considering that the suggested retail price for the camera in the picture (a Canon Powershot G7) is $550, I would say that being able to lower this device's cost down to $700 is quite an accomplishment!

[Billfred]

I was wondering what you were doing with that stepladder on Einstein--these are awesome!

Just curious, what kind of consumer-grade camera get used with something like this?

[Elgin Clock]

Originally Posted by dlavery

Could the project have developed a camera that would capture the entire scene in one shot, and thereby avoided the inter-frame motion problem? Yes, but the resulting device would cost about $1.7 million per unit......
-dave


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I beg to differ.



There is always an easier & less costly solution if you balance what you need to do versus what you want to do. lol


Edit: Oh wow... the Zoom on the Gigapans is amazing! I'm doubtful the head mounted unit does that well. lol

[dlavery]

Originally Posted by Elgin Clock

I beg to differ.

There is always an easier & less costly solution if you balance what you need to do versus what you want to do. lol

These are not even close in capabilities. Please read the description above carefully, including the resulting image sizes. I stand by the assertion that a single-shot camera system capable of equivalent resolution would be in the price range I cited.

-dave

[Pavan Dave]

I love Dave's gigapans. The first one I ever saw was of the Robonaut lab or something at JSC where I saw one of the engineers like 10 times. 10 times including the "1/2"s and the "1/3"s. ...

If anybody is interested take a look at this related TED:
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/129


Pavan


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[Mike M.]

Those are seriously awesome Dave, I was wondering what you were carrying around. Can't wait to see the ones from inside the dome.

[Travis Hoffman]

I see Team 48's photographer doing his usual tireless job taking team photos with his son Jason helping him out. And yes, the disembodied dude in the tuxedo right by the FIRST banner.

[dlavery]

Yeah, we have been having some fun with the Gigapan camera unit.

We used it to take our team picture earlier this evening. A very reduced sub-sample version is shown below (if you click on it, it is linked to the full-resolution version in the Gigapan database)


According to the picture, we have about 183 people on the team (and that was with only about half of the team showing up tonight)

-dave


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[chaoticprout]

Originally Posted by dlavery

Yeah, we have been having some fun with the Gigapan camera unit.

We used it to take our team picture earlier this evening. A very reduced sub-sample version is shown below (if you click on it, it is linked to the full-resolution version in the Gigapan database)


According to the picture, we have about 183 people on the team (and that was with only about half of the team showing up tonight)

-dave


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That picture is simply amazing. Love it.