[LRflex] Panorama robot

I call your attention to this amazing article in Sunday's (July 20) New York
Times:

"Sweeping Panoramas, Courtesy of a Robot

"ROBOTS already cut the grass and vacuum rugs. Now they are helping with a
more artistic job: creating vast photographic panoramas with ordinary
cameras.
 
"A new, inexpensive robotic device from researchers at Carnegie Mellon
University attaches snugly to almost any standard digital camera, tilting
and panning it to fashion highly detailed panoramic vistas ? whether of the
Grand Canyon, a rain forest or a backyard Easter egg hunt. The robot is
called GigaPan, named ³giga² for the billion or more pixels it can marshal
for a typical panorama. It creates the huge, high-resolution vista by
extending its robotic finger and repeatedly clicking the camera shutter,
taking tens, hundreds or even thousands of overlapping images, each at a
slightly different angle, that are then stitched together by software to
create one gigapixel shot."

For the whole story go to:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/20/technology/20novel.html?scp=1&sq=panorama&;
st=nyt

All the best,

Bill Abbott
On vacation at Lake Tahoe, California


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