2009 Gigapan of Finals

[Frank Neuperger]

James,

q8300 quad core at 2.5 GHz. 8 Gbytes 1366 MHz DDR3 memory.

It is an iBuypower machine. Forgot the mother board. I think the bus is 1600 MHz capable. Too bad the stitcher does not use the 64 core NVIDIA graphics card.

I am looking into setting up a Ramdrive to do the stitching as I think I am bottle-necked at the I/O to the disk. It never gets above 35% average on CPU even when I elevate task priority.

Frank

[Frank Neuperger]

Originally Posted by Pikat

Slightly related topic - does anyone know if anyone has made a photosynth (www.photosynth.net) from inside the Dome?

Cool technology. The 3D support structure of the inside of the dome would be very interesting to try with Photosynth. Too bad there is no way to export the 3-D model. Perhaps I will get some photos with parallax next year.... if we make it to the Championship.

Note that the Gigapan image sets made from the stationary camera position are not likely to be too useful for Photosynth as the information content of the Photsynth pixel clouds are most likely enriched by the parallax from changing the camera position. I wonder if (and if how) the recent Mars exploration images were processed to extract 3-D models of the terrain and features.

Frank
Team 39

[Frank Neuperger]

Great shot of Team 39

http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.p...pshot_id=65908