Look What we can do
posted by Spinfly at 3:06 PM
Thursday, May 19, 2005
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I don't know about mac users but I do know that PCs will usually resize whatever picture you are looking at to fit the window you are viewing it in. To fix this problem, you must place your mouse over said picture and wait for a few seconds. After that time, an icon will appear in the bottom right corner, click on that and the image will go to it's actual size. If the same thing happens for Macs, you guys are on your own.
How Many D's do you see?
It is actually done with a program we downloaded.
It’s called AutoStitch it is from Mathew Brown who has a PhD at University of British Columbia.
No piecing at all. It does it all by it’s self by recognizing similarities in texture. The photos don’t even have to be in order. Amazing
Polyman...I think you should take a look at http://www.forbes.com/2003/10/02/1002panaromapinnacor.html. It is a Forbes article about the author of the software we used to create the panorama. He has gone on to do more very interesting and almost Termeshpere-computer-rendering software research. I'll post more details as I find them.
Chop Clones! I thought I was the only one who knew how to do that! (...except in my day, I had to have quite a bit of help, because we didn't have computers.)
My clones are named Jacob and Dylan... what do you call yours Chop? (Wink.)
Goodbye Spring.
Right Skleeve! Quantum realitiy. Being in 3 universes at once by folding through space and time. Cool. The
Chop did it, Spin took the pix. They were there.
Hurray for the Irish! The first to break through and come back laughing.
Polyman..there are quite a few software packages out there that are designed to create panoramas. It would be fun to see what would happen with the total photos using them. There is also quite a bit of imaging research going on in the lofty academic towers. Take a look at this site. It is from the Engineering Dept at Cambridge.
Did you guys print this out and wrap it around to connect? Also, who is that guy in the screen door?
And how lond did this take to shoot and render?
Did you use your good camera? And finally, how do you get it to fit on a mobius strip? Infinite Chop!
Ahem:
1. We have yet to print it, I've really been wanting to, but I'm afraid of how much paper it would take.
2. I'm mildly surprised you don't recognize the guy in the window, what with all the work you've been doing with him lately. That is Mikal Kraklio (sorry if I spelled it wrong Mikal). By the way on that subject, Eeks and I feel a slight bit rejected that he got a Hot Pink hat that he wears about rather frequently and we didn't.
3. When everything was finished, what with getting the pictures to a size that you could see everything and it wasn't the size of a house, it was all about 45 minutes, but that includes a lot of software tweeking, now it would probably take us about 10 mins.
4.Did we use the good camera? Heh Heh Heh I belive you should already know that answer to that. Simulated conversation in the office:
Mom: Spin, you have to go take some pictures.
Spin:........ There is nothing said because she has already packed the camera and went out the door.
And Finally, I think the Mobius Strip issue is yours to figure out pops. I'd love to see the end result.
Phew!!
Ok, I figured out the Mobius Trip, and it's an easy journey.
Print your image out two times. Actually 3 times, once "flopped" in Photoshop so "left" becomes "right". (I'm not sure if you need this one or not, but I think you might. )
Anyway, mount one picture on the back of the other, upside down.
Then give it the good old mobius 1/2 twist and everything will line up. Be sure to add a little extra image for a good overlap.
I think the flopped print might look better than the straight one, but without making one, I can't visualize it in my head well enough.
Either way, it would make an amazing gallery piece.
What is the photo's aspect ratio? (Height to length?)
It will need lamination if people are going to handle it. Or maybe it just gets mounted cleverly and seamlessly in a plexiglass box.
What's the next subject? Chop as evolution?
I can't get a clean download of your image here at home. Also at home, I seem to only get part of the pan. At the office it wraps a full 360. The download I do get seems to have a greenish film covering it. Can you send me a jpeg in the email sometime?
Both home and office?
We'll have to wait till we can get to Asio to do it, the final is on Spinny's comp. There is also one of them before we shrunk it down to be on the web, I think it's width was in the 15,000s of pixels! We saw as how it could be a little smaller than that. This one's Ratio is 5189 x 500. It should definatly be Mobiusisized.
Aspect ratio is roughly 1:10. Should work great!
For the plexiglass mount, superglue the right edge to one side of the plexiframe the left to the other side. The twist will happen in the middle. Make the other two sides just high enough to get good separation in the loop, allowing you to see the whole image on all sides. No need to glue anywhere else but on the edge and those two pieces of plexi.
p.s. I see the piece lying on it's side the long way.
It will be say 5" tall by about 25" wide, right?
Guys and gals. Don't you just hate concept artists? They never make anything... they just tell other people what to make. That's what I am, by the way, (in case you haven't already figured it out ). A concept guy. Sorry.
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