Ben, this post makes my day. do we have a way of telling or estimating the XO's swivel angle from hardware?
SJ On 6/20/07, Eben Eliason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > > _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
