Correcting the Ghost People

A photograph captures a moment in time.  A GigaPan is often presented as capturing a single moment, but
as we know it captures many disconnected moments, and things happen between those moments.

One of the most distracting things is when people move between frames.  Often there will be a reasonably complete image of a person in the space where two or four images meet.  If the person has moved the Stitch program tries to blend the different views into one view.  Sometimes this is an entertaining effect, but mostly it is simply distracting.

The most frustrating are the images where there is a good image of a person on one of the pictures, but it is being obscured by another image.  Wouldn't it be great if you could just make the 'extra' images go away?  Read on for a simple way to fix (some) of these GigaPans.

GigaPan: Democratizing information and bolstering bioliteracy

Fine Fellow Alex Smith wrote a fantastic article about his experience with gigapan for the quarterly newsletter of the International Barcode for Live Project.

Alex concludes, "There are many parallels between the GigaPan and DNA barcoding as complementary forces for democratizing information and bolstering bioliteracy. Both are publicly accessible, both will be annotated through time by a community of experts and non-experts alike and both exist as a synthetic connection from the digital to the natural world.

One key to our capacity to understand the changes caused by the increasing pressures of the urbanization and degradation of natural environments will be ongoing monitoring through time. If such monitoring is democratized and publically available as DNA barcodes and GigaPans, then a marginalized environment may become more valued by the human population."

 Check out the full article at http://ibol.org/gigapan/.

Fine International Conference on Gigapixel Imaging for Science

Science Like You've Never Seen Before...

The CREATE Lab and Carnegie Mellon University, with The Fine Foundation, are pleased to announce the first Fine International Conference on Gigapixel Imaging for Science. Aiming to explore innovative use of GigaPan in the classroom, the field and the laboratory, the conference will feature all aspects of gigapixel technology in the science field.

November 11–13, 2010
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Early registration ends September 13, 2010.
Learn more or register for the conference: http://gigapixelscience.org

Education Day

This is a nice description of some GigaPan and other technology empowerment activities during a special visit by local students thanks to the Consortium for Public Education.

LBJ's Oval Office

Thanks to David Engle, there are GigaPans of LBJ's Oval Office and Lady Bird's office ready for exploration- and there is a great deal to find. Enjoy.

New issue of GigaPan Magazine is out!

I am proud to announce that Volume 2, Issue 1 of GigaPan Magazine is now published. Check out the wonderful imagery on the theme, Environmental Portraits. It is a wonderful issue, thanks to all.

Embedding Tutorials

I've created a few tutorials on using the Embed Wizard for embedding your gigapans in your web site or blog.  Check them out at http://gigapan-embedding-tutorials.blogspot.com/.

Enjoy!