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This location in the regional preserve is North of Livermore California by about ten miles. It is about thirty miles from Berkeley California. The area is really rather remote for being so close to urban areas. It is great to have parks and hills. Mount Diablo is the peak that you see.
The image consited of 1600 images of 9 megapixels each to produce an image of 210,000 by about 20,000 pixels to make a 4 gigapixel image. There was a great deal of image overlap. It took two ales to complete the exposure of this image. It also took six days for my dual core to process this. |
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This is a higer resolution image of the lights of Casa del Pomba - The House of the Dove - in Livermore California, the hub of Photon Valley. This annual event uses 301,000 lights to transform Deacon Dave's front yard into a very special place. Hundreds of laughing children and smiling adults come through here each night in December to view the display. The project is a major undertaking by the oversized elves that contribute to its construction each year. Jim is working to improve the performance of the snow machine that is apparently impacted by climate change. The spirit of Santa exists in the hearts and minds of those who bring this place to life.
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This one wrapped itself in an unusual way.
The image is of Arroyo Del Valle, a creek that runs through a park South of Livermore California. |
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House of the Dove is Deacon Dave's most publically appreciated work. The 301,000 lights, scenes, trains, fountain, and pools are a big draw. This work is the product of the efforts of many somewhat large elves. |
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This pond is spring feed and holds water all year, almost every year. Consequently it is home to many animals and is visitied by many others. Coyotes like to hunt for groud squirrels here and are often present when people are not around or are quiet. I have even spoted a mountain lion here. A scarlet tananger came by to check me out while I was setting up, apparently drawn by the sort of chipring sound that my motors made. But this was early afternoon on a 100 degree day so all of the other beasts hide from this, and I was largely alone except for dragonflys. |
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Morgan Territory is a remote place surrounded by Bay area population centers. On this November day it was the location for search and rescue exercises using rescue dogs. This is the view from under a tree looking towards the staging area More about Morgan Territory: http://www.ebparks.org/files/EBRPD_files/brochure/morgan_terr_text.pdf |
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This image of vineyards South of Livermore California was taken during the brief moments of golden light before sunset.
The purpose of this panorama was for me to test my ability to take and process full color 3D panoramas. The taking portion of the process is pretty well down now. I do this manually with a pair of Canon cameras that I have tightly synchronized using USB connections and StereoData Maker software. The camera pair are tripod mounted and rotated to produce the image. Viewing the image is a bit tedious because the software is simply not there yet. It is common practice to view side by side stereo images on the computer. The most popular way involves no special glasses and is called "crossed viewing" - a technique described here: http://home.comcast.net/~holographics/cross.html Once you have learned thes method it can become relatively easy to do, and works really well. To view this image pair you have to open the other side of the image in a separate Gigapan window and adjust the two images so they are looking at the same area and at the same size. The images need to be at the same height or the head needs to be tilted somewhat to make up for any alignment errors. While it would be nice to have stereo adjustments in GigaPan connecting the two windows (or even a macro) this is not there yet. Stereo software chokes on images of this size but is really nice for smaller images: http://stereo.jpn.org/eng/stphmkr/index.html These are full screen windows of the right image: http://share.gigapan.org/viewGigapanFullscreen.php?id=14479 and of the left image: http://share.gigapan.org/viewGigapanFullscreen.php?id=14478 I have another pair here: http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=9201 |
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Crossed view panaorama.
The purpose of this panorama was for me to test my ability to take and process full color 3D panoramas. The taking portion of the process is pretty well down now. I do this manually with a pair of Canon cameras that I have tightly synchronized using USB connections and StereoData Maker software. The camera pair are tripod mounted and rotated to produce the image. Viewing the image is a bit tedious because the software is simply not there yet. It is common practice to view side by side stereo images on the computer. The most popular way involves no special glasses and is called "crossed viewing" - a technique described here: http://home.comcast.net/~holographics/cross.html Once you have learned thes method it can become relatively easy to do, and works really well. To view this image pair you have to open the other side of the image in a separate Gigapan window and adjust the two images so they are looking at the same area and at the same size. The images need to be at the same height or the head needs to be tilted somewhat to make up for any alignment errors. While it would be nice to have stereo adjustments in GigaPan connecting the two windows (or even a macro) this is not there yet. Stereo software chokes on images of this size but is really nice for smaller images: http://stereo.jpn.org/eng/stphmkr/index.html These are full screen windows of the right image: http://share.gigapan.org/viewGigapanFullscreen.php?id=25823 and of the left image: http://share.gigapan.org/viewGigapanFullscreen.php?id= 25822 I have another pair here: http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=9201 and here: http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=14478 |
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This panorama was taken atop Fremont's Mission Peaks at 2,250 ft elevation. It is a 2 hour hike to get to the top.
Photos taken on September 13th, 2009 Camera: Canon Powershot SX10 IS Zoom Setting: 13x / 20x Rows/Columns: 6 rows, 22 columns Pictures: 132 total Weather: overcast with low clouds Software: Gigapan Stitcher v0.4.3864 |
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Clouldless skies don't make for much of a sunset unless you like golden light on the hills. I do. This started out as a 360 view but it had become very dark by the time the last 120 degrees were taken, so those are excluded. |