[Activities] Panorama activity

[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 <christoph.derndorfer at gmail.com>

> 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 <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<http://people.fas.harvard.edu/%7Ebmschwar/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<http://people.fas.harvard.edu/%7Ebmschwar/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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