Gigapan
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Gigapan is a collaborative project of Google, Carnegie Mellon University and NASA Ames Intelligent Systems Division's Robotics Group. It is a robotic platform that attaches to a digital camera and some computer software. The robotic platform allows a user to take a photograph, then it will re-aim the camera with great precision, to take another photograph. After taking many photos, the software stitches all the pictures into a gigapixel image.
Public beta-testing of a consumer version of the platform and software has begun.
Illah Nourbakhsh, Associate Professor at Carnegie Mellon University spoke about Gigapan on BBC's "Digital Planet" radio show and podcast on September 11, 2006 [1].
[edit] External links
- http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~globalconn/gigapan.html
- http://www.gigapan.org
- http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-297027359091996047&q=%22public+domain%22+duration%3Along
- http://youtube.com/watch?v=sYhwVMB9QYw
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