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Crossed view panaorama.
The purpose of this panorama was for me to test my ability to take and process full color 3D panoramas. The taking portion of the process is pretty well down now. I do this manually with a pair of Canon cameras that I have tightly synchronized using USB connections and StereoData Maker software. The camera pair are tripod mounted and rotated to produce the image. Viewing the image is a bit tedious because the software is simply not there yet. It is common practice to view side by side stereo images on the computer. The most popular way involves no special glasses and is called "crossed viewing" - a technique described here: http://home.comcast.net/~holographics/cross.html Once you have learned thes method it can become relatively easy to do, and works really well. To view this image pair you have to open the other side of the image in a separate Gigapan window and adjust the two images so they are looking at the same area and at the same size. The images need to be at the same height or the head needs to be tilted somewhat to make up for any alignment errors. While it would be nice to have stereo adjustments in GigaPan connecting the two windows (or even a macro) this is not there yet. Stereo software chokes on images of this size but is really nice for smaller images: http://stereo.jpn.org/eng/stphmkr/index.html These are full screen windows of the right image: http://share.gigapan.org/viewGigapanFullscreen.php?id=25823 and of the left image: http://share.gigapan.org/viewGigapanFullscreen.php?id= 25822 I have another pair here: http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=9201 and here: http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=14478 |
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A classic color. |
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Can you identify any of the citrus on the outer two small trees? Eureka lemon, we believe, is the center tree. After a few guesses, I will identify.
What is the pink flower above? Please help us identify this monster bloomer that falls over the fence from our neighbor. |
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Does anyone see anything to study in this area? Oops! I see that I touched a "how stupid can you be" nerve...so I found the following: "long-term monitoring and ecological study of the Devereux Slough ecosystem. Devereux slough, located at the University managed Coal Oil Point Reserve (Sands Beach) is a seasonally flooded coastal wetland. During the past fifty years, expanding agricultural and urban development has significantly altered the slough system. Such alterations have caused an increase in sedimentation to the system, an increase in water temperature and a decrease in dissolved oxygen. To investigate the changes in slough parameters, this study focuses on invertebrate and fish species diversity and abundance, hydrological characteristics such as bathymetry, oxygen, salinity and temperature measurements and nutrient inputs." Even better: http://nrs.ucop.edu/Coal-Oil-Point.htm |
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Fairly boring view of the beach, a few clumps of mussels, a hidden sea star or two, and a few birds. The beautiful green sea grass is lying down neatly next to the darker kelp. The fun is peering down between the rocks and catching a snowy egret, curlew, whimbrel, plover, sandpiper, or godwit at work. see webshots: http://outdoors.webshots.com/album/570444354bkBnxc |
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Brown Pelicans polluting the harbor? |
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see more: http://family.webshots.com/album/571884685LGDinK (take out any spaces in address)
Photoshop Elements 6 limited width to 30K pixels. |
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Gap fire area burned in July 2008 has greened up, but some burned gray chapparal seems to show. Day was a bit hazy, so it is a little hazy. Brush Peak is tallest point at 2800ft from our 100ft level. Laurel Springs and Painted Cave at top of range right. This is a stitch by Gigapan stitcher of two pans made with photoshop elements 6. Why were the perspective curves were created by gigapan? Otherwise, looks fairly accurate for proportions. |