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Hawaii Pacific University Modern Media Systems class on the Fort Street Mall in Downtown Honolulu. Question of the day: how can a collaboration that includes Carnegie Mellon University, NASA, GOOGLE, National Geographic, and faculty and students at Hawaii Pacific University expand our understanding of modern media systems? In other words, what emerging, unique potentials are being leveraged by these institutions and their communities in our network of networks project? In part this image constitutes an exploration and manifestation of image-making technologies that provide opportunities for meta-connectivity and global community building. A compelling aspect of the global connection project is its attention to transparency. Transparency of technology, transparency of process, and drill down ability in the composite image itself.. |
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Note: an earlier GigaPan, http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=30905 , did not include the panoramic view of Pasadena and the Houston Ship Channelarea as does this panorama.
Taken from the 24th floor of Hilton Americas Hotel: http://tinyurl.com/2og9ru An stunning view of Houston from Galena Park and the Houston Ship Channel area westward to the heart of the downtown area, especially so since there are two pillars not shown in this panorama, but yet the view can almost be considered seamless except that the railing shows where there should be a pillar(s). The GigaPan Stitcher comes though with flying colors on this one. The view, taken from the 24th floor and was breathtaking as I took it using my trusty Nikon D70 (soon to be retired) and a Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 lens. There is no Photoshop on this panorama, only the GigaPan Stitcher, and the collection of photos were taken hand-held. |
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I bought a new Nikkor lens yesterday and today was the first attempt to use the 35mm f/1.8.
Upon entering the Academic Quad, I could see that in a few moments, after the Sun cleared a cloud, I would have some good sunlight and I saw Lisa and asked if she wanted to participate in this experimental panorama. I hoped that it would be a 360-degree panorama, but things don't always happen the way you wish that they would and so, we almost had a 360 had it not been for user error. As you can readily see, the panorama was taken during the student go slowly from one class to another, so there are many faces in the crowd that are recognizable to those that may know them. Again, this was taken hand-held with a Nikon D70 camera and a Nikkor 35mm f/1.8 lens and was stitched using the GigaPan Stitcher software. Additional information can be seen upon clicking Stitcher Notes. Also,I was happy to get this rare lens. Due to lens quality, it is very popular, so I celebrated my good fortune by buying a Heliopan UV filter. You may enjoy the view in Google Earth via the link, View in Google Earth. |
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The center for mathematical sciences (aka DAMPT)of Cambridge University.
Just a fraction under 360 due to cropping. I'd like to consider this as a personal unofficial (unless someone returns my emails..) contribution to the 800 year anniversary celebrations of cambridge uni (offical site: http://www.800.cam.ac.uk/). wiki page for the Center for mathematical sciences: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre_for_Mathematical_Sciences_(Cambridge) The image was shot over 4 days with a couple of hours per day (to try and preserve lighting). Done with a kodak z8612 is at 432mm equivilant on an unmotorised cheapo tilt/pan tripod. The ~1100 image took a day to render with an intel E7200, 8GB ram and standard hard drives. Rendered bicubic, multiband with the new Autopano pro 2. Post processing was done to fill in the sky (not quite as well as i would have liked) with a stitch of images at 49mm equivilant. For more of my images from cambridge, and a handful from other places, check my profile here, my website http://lifeinmegapixels.com. |
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Full 360 view of the Great court in trinity college cambridge.
Taken mid-march 09. The central fountain is not seen as the pictures were taken while moving around it, the fountain's shadow can be seen in about the center of the photo. For more of cambridge, and some of my other high res/panoramic photographs, visit http://lifeinmegapixels.com |
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This was acquired using the gigapan system from top of mc clung tower. A matrix of 25 x 3 scans were made. This image is only for viewing. Any efforts to reproduce it for commerical or non commercial reasons is subject to copyright violations. The Imaging, Robotics and Intelligence Systems (IRIS) lab holds the sole copyright of this image. Photographers: Justin Acuff and Harishwaran 'Hari' Hariharan |
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Last year after I had received my GigaPan robot, I was fortunate to come upon the Sally Ride Science Festival and had taken a GigaPan (http://gigapan.org/gigapans/11021/). Today, I was again lucky and arrived to discover that this was the day for the 2009 Festival.
This panorama could easily become a big-time favorite of mine for it has lots to see... a good size moon rock, two solar telescopes and one of Rice's finest, a RPD officer, who I have had the pleasure of knowing for several years, who you can see in one of the snapshots. This panorama is comprised of 26 photographs, which were taken with a Nikon D-70 using a Nikkor 28-80 f/3.3-5.6G lens and was stitched using the GigaPan Stitcher software. Note: This panorama can be seen in Google Earth as a curved panorama on a curved surface by clicking the link, View in Google Earth (assuming that you have Google Earth installed on your computer). Additional information can be found when clicking Stitcher Notes ... this panorama was taken in 40 seconds. |
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This amazing lady is a math major and because of the pressures of studying, well you only have so many hours in a day.
After taking the panorama of Lisa, http://gigapan.org/gigapans/33041/ I walked over to Keck Hall with the purpose of taking a small panorama, but before I got to where I wanted, I saw some nice sunlight on the lecture hall entrance, and as I took the photos, I wanted to make sure that the resultant size was large enough to U/L to gigapan.org and then I noticed Chloe walking towards RMC and I then took enough photos to make this a 360-degree panorama and it stitched as such. Again, this was taken hand-held with a Nikon D70 camera and a Nikkor 35mm f/1.8 lens and was stitched using the GigaPan Stitcher software. Additional information can be seen upon clicking Stitcher Notes. Also,I was happy to get this rare lens. Due to lens quality, it is very popular, so I celebrated my good fortune by buying a Heliopan UV filter. You may enjoy the view in Google Earth via the link, View in Google Earth. |
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A Pollinator Garden at the Dauphin County Agriculture and Natural Resources Center. The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture along with Penn State University are conducting a citizen scientist project monitoring native bees. Two of the main goals of the project are to determine which plants native bees are most attracted to and to continue to add to the known species of bees found in Pennsylania. |
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I wanted to take a panorama of the new recreation building just completed within the past two weeks (We had seen this building nearing completion as we took an earlier GigaPan from the Rice Stadium: http://www.gigapan.org/gigapans/29860/snapshots/91283/) and as I prepared to start, Fernanda walks by and she and I both admire the beauty of this new structure.
Note: This panorama is comprised of 20 photos, and each is 300dpi and is not a 360-panorama. An earlier stitch using files that are 72 dpi and is a 360-panorama can be found via this link: http://gigapan.org/gigapans/c4ff0c34e265f28ae615f38153e8fba4/. Both files are viewable in Google Earth via the link, View in Google Earth. The panorama was taken using a Nikon D70 with a Nikkor 35mm f/1.8 lens and was stitched using the GigaPan Stitcher. Additional details can be found under Stitcher Notes. |