The Web is getting more visually immersive all the time. For a peak at what a gigapixel pannoramic image looks like on the Web check out Gigapan, a project at Carnegie Mellon University. Using a rotating stand that it sells for $279, anyone can use their digital camera to take panoramic pictures stitched together from multiple shots. You can zoom in and zoom out with amazing clarity, and really dive deep into the pictures.
The coolest thing is that they’ve implemented it in Google Earth. It’s easy to browse the world and see nice panoramas all around the globe.
The nasty thing is that it’s pretty hard to build a community with this kind of subject. Now … how many people would actually contribute?
I’m pretty sure that Microsoft Research came up with some free software that lets you do “roughly” the same thing, but without the stand. So the $279 is to get rid of the “roughly”
For a moment there, I thought GigaOm was getting into photography.
I can’t get the flash image viewer to work properly in Firefox or Safari on OS/X.
Hopefully it’s only a temporary glitch.
The nasty thing is that it’s pretty hard to build a community with this kind of subject. Now and how many people would actually contribute?
I think this is an awesome idea but it looks like the deadline to apply to be a contributor has past. I sent an e-mail in to ask, does anyone have any further info?
yeah, how is this different similar to the seadragon technology that msft bought?
s/peak/peek/
You can see the MS version here http://research.../ivm/hdview.htm – very slick stuff!
Excellent panoramas with Google Earth…
Another panoramic viewer :
http://www.geog...tml.en#arcachon
http://test.geo...arage.com/senat
Damn,
I signed-up hoping that I could upload my 20 meg panormas and have an easy way of browsing them but unfortunately this is not possible. They only display their own.
@Oliver: The gigapan site is not closed to our own panoramas. In fact, the number of panoramas from outside contributors far outnumber our own. We do, however, have a minimum pixel resolution of 50 megapixels. Please submit a bug report (using the Report a Bug link at the bottom of every page on gigapan.org) if you are having trouble uploading your panoramas.
Panoramas and great photographs what more could you ask?
You can see some similar images here. http://www.xrez.com/
And you can see thousands of spherical panoramas at 360 Cities – http://www.360cities.net – we also have a google earth layer
Great Article. Thanks a lot for information.
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Andy
Great Article. Thanks a lot for information.