Panorama activity

[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 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 <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:
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> 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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