[Activities] Panorama activity

[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 <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
> >
> > 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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