The Civils Side of Life

The GigaPan website has been created to enable people and communities to come together through images that have so much detail that they themselves are the objects of exploration. Create yourself an account and you can upload images, over 50 MegaPixels, of your own. The real aim is to create massive images, with the robotic mount now available for a range of cameras you can take 1000′s of images and combine them to produce panoramas of a GigaPixel (1000 MegaPixels) and more. Since I purchased the original robotic mount at the start of the year I’ve slowly got used to the new style of photography and some of the quirks of stitching the large number of images into one panorama.

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I was planning to begin this blog with the usual ‘Hello World‘ entry and bore you to death with who I am and what I do, instead there is an About page for you to read at your own risk.

Today I’d like to talk to you about GigaPanning. Do you like a good vista? Don’t you just love a large panoramasrather that little 7″ x 5″ photo? A GigaPan is a very large high-resolution panoramic image (of a Gigapixel or more) that is itself explorable. Gigapan is a development of the Global Connection Project, aiming to help everyone meet their neighbours all around the World.

That’s the spiel, in practice it’s also quite simple. Take a photo of a scene or vista and with a good quality camera you get a great picture. Take several pictures that overlap and using a little software you can create a much more detailed panorama. Now expand that thought; why not take tens or hundreds of photos of that same vista, how about a thousand photos all overlapping and combined to make one huge image! With the right interface you could zoom in and explore the little details in the background. Now you have your GigaPan.
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