[Activities] Panorama activity

[Samuel Klein]

Speaking of which, Jeff Keller has been trying to get OLPC folks to
learn more about using his gigapan group's cameras (and perhaps to
borrow one to bring them into a country for weeks) for a while.  Jeff,
Ben Schwartz and Nirav are really interested in large-scale image
splicing...

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On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 2:08 AM, Brian Jordan <brian at laptop.org> wrote:
> *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 <bmschwar at fas.harvard.edu> wrote:
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>> 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
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>> 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
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