How much Mega pixel can be covered in a single digital camera? What if you need Giga Pixel image? How to view this image?
All these questions answered by Gigapan project by Google, Carnegie Mellon University and NASA Ames Intelligent Systems Division’s Robotics Group.
Site: http://www.gigapan.org
How it works?
The robotic platform is made to allow user to take a photograph. Then it will take photos from different angles and position to make a large photo sequence. Computer software crops and stitch all the photographs to form a single Giga Pixel photograph.
Gigapan.org hosts all these photographs, anyone can upload photographs to it, and anyone can place comments on them.
You can use almost any consumer(compact point and shoot) camera. For better result DSLR can be used. Gigapan’s motor move camera left to right for horizontal shots and up to down for vertical shots. Robotic finger presses shutter button.
The most popular photo on this website is President Barack Obama’s Inaugural. It is viewed more than 9058654 times when this was written. It is made with 220 images creating 1.4Gigapixel resolution.
You can buy this instrument with software in just $379. All we have to do is setup your camera on it, Define four boundaries. It works on 6 AA NiMH Batteries. http://www.gigapansystems.com
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