Re: Panorama activity

2008-11-04 Thread Nirav Patel
I applied for project hosting a few weeks ago but haven't gotten a reply yet. For now I'm just using my own repo. I'm starting up an Activity development team at my university, and our first projects are going to be getting Panorama and Bridge to a deployable state. Our first meeting is going to

Re: Panorama activity

2008-11-04 Thread Samuel Klein
this is still one of the cooler projects people have taken on! Jeff K, have you gotten to try it out? Nirav, any thoughts of another release? Else you (or someone who wants to maintain it) should set up hosting for the code... SJ On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 2:15 AM, Nirav Patel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Panorama activity

2008-10-12 Thread Nirav Patel
That sounds like a much better idea. I'll try to set up something like that on my webserver, though I'll have to move elsewhere if the activity gains any kind of popularity. It still leaves the problem of the images uploading to my personal Flickr account though. I think having a Panorama Collec

Re: Panorama activity

2008-10-11 Thread Brian Jordan
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 10:26 PM, Nirav Patel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My roomate and I wrote an auto-stitching Panorama Activity during the > Yahoo Hack Day at CMU yesterday (ended up winning the Hack for Good > award). I'll be posting it in the wiki at some point today.

Re: Panorama activity

2008-10-11 Thread Nirav Patel
My roomate and I wrote an auto-stitching Panorama Activity during the Yahoo Hack Day at CMU yesterday (ended up winning the Hack for Good award). I'll be posting it in the wiki at some point today. It needs a whole lot of polishing, since it was written in 24 hours. I ran into the same pr

Re: [sugar] [Activities] Panorama activity

2008-09-10 Thread Erik Blankinship
> > > > Christoph Derndorfer wrote: > > | Sweet, I totally missed that! > > | > > | Is anyone actively working on integrating that functionality into > 'record' > > | or making it available as a seperate activity? > > | > > | Chris

Re: [sugar] [Activities] Camera raw mode (WAS: Panorama activity)

2008-09-06 Thread Nirav Patel
> > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> > Hash: SHA1 >> > >> > Christoph Derndorfer wrote: >> > | Sweet, I totally missed that! >> > | >> > | Is anyone actively working on integrating that functionality into >> > 'record&#

Re: [sugar] [Activities] Camera raw mode (WAS: Panorama activity)

2008-09-06 Thread Christoph Derndorfer
A1 > > > > Christoph Derndorfer wrote: > > | Sweet, I totally missed that! > > | > > | Is anyone actively working on integrating that functionality into > 'record' > > | or making it available as a seperate activity? > > | > > | Christoph >

Re: [sugar] [Activities] Panorama activity

2008-09-05 Thread Nirav Patel
nyone actively working on integrating that functionality into 'record' > | or making it available as a seperate activity? > | > | Christoph > | > > See http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/sugar/2008-February/004307.html > > The Panorama Activity is snot quite barely func

Re: [sugar] [Activities] Panorama activity

2008-09-05 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
mail/sugar/2008-February/004307.html The Panorama Activity is snot quite barely functional. It might be best to roll this functionality into Record, and Erik Blankinship has expressed some interest in that. However, Record's UI is very unusual, and I am not about to attempt integration with i

Re: [Activities] Panorama activity

2008-09-05 Thread Ixo X oxI
If the code is short, how about including it in Pippy as an example python script ? :) -Iain 2008/9/5 Christoph Derndorfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sweet, I totally missed that! > > Is anyone actively working on integrating that functionality into 'record' > or making it available as a seperate acti

Re: [Activities] Panorama activity

2008-09-05 Thread Christoph Derndorfer
Sweet, I totally missed that! Is anyone actively working on integrating that functionality into 'record' or making it available as a seperate activity? Christoph On 9/5/08, Brian Jordan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > *bump* > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Panorama_camera_activity > > (code? Nirav

Re: Panorama activity

2008-09-04 Thread Brian Jordan
*bump* http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Panorama_camera_activity (code? Nirav is interested in doing something similar!) Brian > On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 11:56 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > The XO happens to be perfect for s

Re: Panorama activity

2007-06-20 Thread Eben Eliason
> I had a much simpler idea: overlay the previous frame on the video field, offset > by the desired amount (say, 70%). This is what many consumer digicams do in > panorama mode, including my cell phone. It is then obvious to the user to turn > the screen until the overlaid image aligns with the

Re: Panorama activity

2007-06-20 Thread Jim Gettys
> I had a much simpler idea: overlay the previous frame on the video field, > offset > by the desired amount (say, 70%). This is what many consumer digicams do in > panorama mode, including my cell phone. It is then obvious to the user to > turn > the screen until the overlaid image aligns wit

Re: Panorama activity

2007-06-20 Thread Eben Eliason
I had a much simpler idea: overlay the previous frame on the video field, offset by the desired amount (say, 70%). This is what many consumer digicams do in panorama mode, including my cell phone. It is then obvious to the user to turn the screen until the overlaid image aligns with the camera

Re: Panorama activity

2007-06-20 Thread Eben Eliason
As an addendum to my previous email, since I've done some amount of image processing in my life, the "diff" I mention is really just a comparison of a feature vector taken from a small slice of the new image (near the trailing edge, but not exactly from, since you might get some artifacts or color

RE: Panorama activity

2007-06-20 Thread Eduardo Díaz
ED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Asunto: Re: Panorama activity > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Eben Eliason wrote: > > That's a lot of shots. Can you do some tests to determine > the minimal > > required number that still produces decent stit

Re: Panorama activity

2007-06-20 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eben Eliason wrote: > That's a lot of shots. Can you do some tests to determine the minimal > required number that still produces decent stitches? I would be happy to do some tests. > Would 25% overlap > be sufficient? Probably. That would correspo

Re: Panorama activity

2007-06-20 Thread Eben Eliason
Ben - That's a lot of shots. Can you do some tests to determine the minimal required number that still produces decent stitches? Would 25% overlap be sufficient? We could try to indicate the angle for the next photo with icons, but I feel like 8 shots or so is the maximum we could require befor

Re: Panorama activity

2007-06-20 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Samuel Klein wrote: > do we have a way of telling or > estimating the XO's swivel angle from hardware? The stitcher determines the angle from the images themselves. I'm not aware of any helpful hardware. Eben Eliason wrote: > Ben, what's the viewing

Re: Panorama activity

2007-06-20 Thread Samuel Klein
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 m

Re: Panorama activity

2007-06-20 Thread Eben Eliason
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 t

Panorama activity

2007-06-20 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
-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