I think this is truly fantastic. It's the perfect example of leveraging the technology in previously unthought of ways. In my mind this makes perfect sense within the Capture activity (which, for the record, we're referring to as "Record" this week). I'm also fairly impressed by the output of the simple algorithm, and think it's perfectly suitable for use on the XO. Erik, let me know your thoughts on incorporating this. I can mock up some designs for the step-by-step procedure. Ben, what's the viewing angle of the camera? Is 6 shots sufficient?
- Eben On 6/20/07, Benjamin M. Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The XO happens to be perfect for shooting stitched panoramic photographs, due to the swivel design. I tested it out in the OLPCHQ lobby. Then, I wrote a simple panorama stitcher in 50 lines of Python. It runs in 3.4 seconds on my Core Duo, producing this output: http://people.fas.harvard.edu/~bmschwar/lobby_ugly.jpg The results aren't too bad. I also tried stitching this scene with Hugin, the most powerful panorama stitcher I know of. Hugin required significant user intervention and half an hour of computing time, producing this output: http://people.fas.harvard.edu/~bmschwar/lobby_pretty.jpg This scene is unusually difficult because of the huge indoor-outdoor contrast. Given this positive result, I would like to work on a panorama-making activity, possibly inside Capture. I know that at age 10, I loved making panoramas out of photographs. Panoramas provide an immersive way for children to communicate their environments to each other and to the world. - --Ben Schwartz -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGeU4yUJT6e6HFtqQRAv4rAJ9F5wTDfzz9piYzzwGskVVmaqZTiQCgjFru QsRergUtY1iCZS6hIXCHjSM= =v5GB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
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