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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