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Farewell to King Bladud's Pigs

By: (Kilgore661) on October 19, 2008
Tags: bath

These pigs were individually decorated by local artists as a fund-raising initiative for the "Two Tunnels" sustainable transport project (http://www.twotunnels.org.uk/). They were on public display on the streets of Bath for six months in 2008 and were a great tourist attraction. You can see some of the pigs in their original locations by searching on the keyword "Bladud" and some of the snapshots have comments with links to the pig in the snapshot like this: http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=6439&snapshot_id=31294.

The original pig was sculpted by Alan Dun: http://www.alandun.co.uk and http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=11385&snapshot_id=31484.

There are over 100 pigs in total. This pano shows most of them. Sadly for the public, the pigs were sold at public auction. Happily for the Two Tunnels project, they raised a great deal of money. At least one pig sold for tens of thousands of pounds.

For an alternative version of this image taken later in the afternoon, see http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=11385.

PIG ID PUZZLE (Open Research Problem, Experts Only)

Are any of the following pigs in this pano?

http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=6439&snapshot_id=31293

http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=7541&snapshot_id=31296

http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=7459&snapshot_id=31285

Update. It seems that two of these pigs have been identified now by Texas_Photo - see comments below.

Date Taken: October 19, 2008
Date Added: October 20, 2008
Bookmarked: 9 times
Total Views: 92580 views
Gear: GigaPan Beta + Sony DSC-H7
Snapshots: 204
Size: 0.93 gigapixels
Field of View: 360.0 degrees wide, 60.4 degrees high
Stitcher Notes: view


comments
October 20, 2008 12:32 Flag as inappropriate

Houston Cow Parade: This reminds me of an event here in Houston a few years ago... instead of pigs, we had cows, sometimes with horns. The sculptor was Pascal Knapp and he has done a cow show in London. Here is the URL: http://houston.cowparade.com/cow/gallery There are 21 pages of cows, which were scattered all of the greater Houston Area. And the London link: http://london.cowparade.com/ Whoever the artist is that created the Bath Pigs, did a fantastic job as illustrated in your Gigapan.

Posted by Texas_Photo
October 20, 2008 13:50 Flag as inappropriate

The artist who sculpted the original pig is Alan Dun. See http://www.alandun.co.uk/.

Posted by Kilgore661
October 20, 2008 14:30 Flag as inappropriate

The pano here on gigapan.org looks pretty good... in fact very good; HOWEVER, the view in Google Earth is probably the best quality 360 panorama I have seen on Google Earth... you set a new standard for all of us to try to reach...

Posted by Texas_Photo
October 20, 2008 18:43 Flag as inappropriate

Love the pigs! Great pano to explore, thanks for sharing the exhibit with us!

Posted by ErinL
October 23, 2008 18:28 Flag as inappropriate

While looking at this wonderful panorama as much as I have been doing and going back and reviewing earlier panoramic works by Kilgore, I am particularly reminded of the great English social critic, satirist and panoramic cartoonist, William Hogarth (1697-1764). A few examples: http://www.gigapan.org/viewConversation.php?id=21168 http://www.gigapan.org/viewConversation.php?id=28624 http://www.gigapan.org/viewConversation.php?id=28813 and http://gigapan.blogspot.com/2008/09/conversations-are-cool.html which will take you to: http://gigapan.org/viewConversation.php?id=23110 I attend a number of piano recitals at the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University and one studio stands out in my memory because each student, before he or she begins their piano piece, tells the audience about the composer life, etc. We all should do this as we present our compositions to draw the viewer into our work of art for this makes looking at the panorama far more exciting. Granted, Kilgore has not done many before like this panorama, but I expect him to as he continues to draw us into the daily life in Bath as Hogarth did most famously in London.

Posted by Texas_Photo
February 20, 2009 18:09 Flag as inappropriate

It has now only been four months since this GigaPan appeared and I was wondering if you have thought about putting this image on T-Shirts? If it ever happens, I'd like one that is entitled, Hogarth Discovers Bath.

Posted by Texas_Photo
February 21, 2009 14:35 Flag as inappropriate

FIRST I CONGRATULATE YOU ABOUT THIS AMAZING PHOTO BUT BY YOUR TEC THERE IS A FALSE PHOTO IN THE PHOTO OF Farewell to King Bladud's Pigs IN THE LEFT THE IMAGE IS SHOW SOME PEOPLE TWICE IN THE SAME PIC SO PLEASE CHECK IT

Posted by JUDY
February 21, 2009 15:15 Flag as inappropriate

Hi Judy. Thanks for your kind words. The phenomenon you noticed is more or less unavoidable with the gigapan technology because the individual photos that make up the image (238 in the case of this gigapan) are not taken at the same time, so if people move then they appear in the image more than once. I am in the image at least four times (deliberately). You get strange things like people with three arms too (check the snapshots). I could have asked everyone to stand still for twenty minutes while I took my photo, but I'm not sure they would have agreed :-) Actually, many people consider the multiple arms/ears/heads thing part of the charm of gigapanography.

Posted by Kilgore661
February 21, 2009 15:53 Flag as inappropriate

HI I AM SO HAPPY FOR YOUR QUICK RESPONSE BUT I WILL PROVE MY NOTE IF YOU COUNT THE BIGS FROM THE RIGHT ,BIG NO 8 WHICH HAVE THE FACE OF CLOWN AND NO 9 WHICH HAD A FACE OF DOG YOU WILL GOING TO SEE A WOMAN TWICE AND A MAN BESIDE HER AND INFRONT OF THEM TWICE TOO IN A DIFFERENT POSION . THANKS

Posted by JUDY
February 21, 2009 16:22 Flag as inappropriate

Judy, During the process of taking a GigaPan, the camera slowly takes photos from left to right, and since part of the crowd moves from left to right, it is the normal to be in the entire panorama several times. Look at this and tell me how many boats you see coming into the Harbor: http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=6336&snapshot_id=18882 Looks like six, but it is only one boat.

Posted by Texas_Photo
February 22, 2009 12:27 Flag as inappropriate

Hi Judy, I think you misunderstood me. I was not saying you are wrong - I am saying you are quite right. And not only are there two occurrences of a man and a woman between pigs 8 and 9 as you correctly point out, there are in fact many more examples of this problem throughout the entire photo. As David says, this kind of problem can be found in any gigapan image that has anything moving in the shot such as a boat or a person or cars.

Posted by Kilgore661
March 18, 2009 16:28 Flag as inappropriate

Nice gigapan photo! Can you share details like how long it took to complete the series of photos? Your resolution setting? Amount of memory used? Also I have a DSC-H9. I see you used the H7. Does it work well for you? Is the H9 also compatible? Whatever you can share, I would appreciate. It looks like great fun.

Posted by tbrock
March 18, 2009 16:31 Flag as inappropriate

Oops. I just noticed the Stitcher Notes: view button - Newbie mistake. Any subjective info you can share would be nice. Again, looks like great fun.

Posted by tbrock
April 4, 2009 11:54 Flag as inappropriate

Hello Tim, Sorry it has taken me a while to notice your comment. (I have over 200 gigapans ...) It is indeed great fun, and if you have a brass neck, it can get you into all sorts of interesting places. Eg the centre of a ring of 80 decorated brass pigs being viewed by 300 people - I had no official status, I simply asked. The H7 has proved to be an excellent camera. The fact that it is made by Sony seems to put a lot of people off - but it really is their loss. Nearly all my gigapans are taken with the H7. Lately I was given a Canon SD880 to learn to use for a Gigapan Training workshop (http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=19846) and I have to say that works well. The single problem with the H7 is that it is too big to fit on my Gigapan Beta (the same size I believe as the Epic), but as you can tell this hasn't stopped me using it: I simply tie the camera on to the bracket using a compression strap. Gigapan Systems are sending me an Epic 100 which is designed for slightly larger cameras (not DSLRs though) - I can't wait to see how that works with the H7. One issue with the H7 is that it has a great optical zoom, but if you use it at its maximum then you tend to end up with a *lot* of images. Obvious. What isn't so obvious is you need some significant computer power to use those images in a gigapan. I've got a quad-core PC with 4GB and that is barely enough for my bigger panos (600 images). And just don't get me started on how many terabyte drives you get through! Let me know if you want to know anything else.

Posted by Kilgore661
May 21, 2009 15:38 Flag as inappropriate

i dont like pigs but this pigs are very sweety :). i collect this kind of beautyfull panoramas in my site. you can see this panoramas http://www.megapanorama.com if you want to embed panoramas in your site . i can help you .

Posted by nehuse
May 21, 2009 18:47 Flag as inappropriate

Thanks for the offer but it is very easy to embed gigapans now - you simply click on the "embed" button and the system generates the HTML for you.

Posted by Kilgore661
May 23, 2009 03:42 Flag as inappropriate

What would really, really be cool is if you could embed audio when upon clicking a button, we could hear you describe this incredible scene taken in front of the Royal Crescent.

Posted by Texas_Photo
May 23, 2009 04:26 Flag as inappropriate

I agree about audio. When I was taking http://share.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=20541 there were African drums playing very loudly as part of a festival going on outside - that would have been great to have captured. On the other hand, do I really want to carry audio recording gear as well as all the gigapan paraphernalia? Perhaps there should be a bit of RAM and a microphone in the GigaPan?

Posted by Kilgore661
May 23, 2009 12:55 Flag as inappropriate

Per you contest for "Experts," the following have been found: PIG ID PUZZLE (Experts Only) Are any of the following pigs in this pano? http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=6439&snapshot_id=31293 http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=7541&snapshot_id=31296 http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=7459&snapshot_id=31285 And are in this GigaPan as snapshots: Pig Found 1 Pig Found 2 Pig Found 3 Hunting these babies down is worth a Cuban cigar :)

Posted by Texas_Photo
May 24, 2009 17:03 Flag as inappropriate

The 'Experts' in the 'Experts Only' of the title of this puzzle was intended to refer to people who lived and breathed King Bladud's Pigs during the time of the event. It's so hard that it is more of an open research problem than something for which I was expecting an answer. However, you are definitely an expert when it comes to finding fine detail in gigapans David, so your attempt intrigues me. After due consideration I am awarding you 1.95 out of 3 - a good score for an open research problem by a non-Bladudian pig expert. Further comments under each of your snapshots. The judge's decision is not final. He is open to rational debate, reasoned argument and bribes.

Posted by Kilgore661
May 24, 2009 22:58 Flag as inappropriate

Months ago, when you posted this comment,' PIG ID PUZZLE (Open Research Problem, Experts Only),' I thought you were speaking of me :) Sorry for the confusion... of the current 69,659 total views of this magnificant GigaPan, close to a 1000 are from me :)

Posted by Texas_Photo
June 24, 2009 07:18 Flag as inappropriate

http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/view?q=kertisgr&psc=G&filter=1# MY SHOTS HERE

Posted by triopetra
June 25, 2009 18:14 Flag as inappropriate

Sorry, I don't see the connection with this gigapan. I looked, but I couldn't see anything to do with Bladud's Pigs on your page.

Posted by Kilgore661