gigapixel

Here is a foretaste of the Paris 26 Gigapixels image. Feel free to spread the info :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PypARCJHJ9I

If you happen to be around Switzerland next weekend (May 2) or plan to be there in the next 6 months, do not miss the exhibition on the Nidwalder Museum in Stans.

http://www.nidwaldner-museum.ch/dynamic/page_detail.asp?seiid=9&nwcid=60

This exhibition will feature a Gigapixel Print sized 2,5x24 meters from the Swiss Alps shot by Matthias Taugwalder about two months ago.

Like Aldo and Ian, I have been working the last 8 months on an automated panohead to make gigapixel panoramas. I had some basic specs in mind, designig it:

At the Guerilla studio portion of Siggraph today, I participated in a presentation on VR photography.
I introduced IVRPA (and our great new site), and showed some images from the Worldwide Panorama
and Panoramas.dk. I said that "photography and computers are colliding" and I believe that trend is
accelerating. Also presenting was, Gene Cooper (www.fourchambers.org), on "Light Painting in Caves", where he demonstrated
the light painting techniques that his company is using to illuminate caves in a national park.
Imagine making a pano in a pitch black cave, and shining lights on the walls and other surfaces in