Gigapan Robot Uses Ordinary Digital Camera to Produce Detailed Panoramas
Gigapan robot photo platform developed by Carnegie Mellon University and the NASA Ames Intelligent Robot Group has been designed to use any digital camera to produce more accurate panoramic photographs. Costing less than $200 the Gigapan is expected to reduce the process of creating detailed photographic panorama’s to a “turn it on and let it go process.”.
Attach a digital camera to Gigapan and it proceeds to snap a precise sequential scenic panoramia.
Gigapan robot he helped develop takes as many as 300 photographs in 10 minutes to a half hour with any digital camera adjusted to the optical zoom setting. Software the team developed patches the photographs together in quilt-like fashion to create panoramic but highly detailed shots, indicated Illah Nourbakhsh, associate professor of robotics at CMU and head of its robotics master’s program.
Gigapan accommodates most any digital camera, regardless of resolution. With an optical zoom, cameras can produce Gigapans as large as 30 billion pixels.
A special website has been set up to allow people to explore, annotate and share their photographs.
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