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Paul Heckbert (paulheckbert)
Edgewood, PA,
United States of America
Gigapans: 18
Snapshots: 377
Bookmarks: 6
Last Visited: November 06, 2009
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Software Engineer at GigaPan since 2009. Background in Computer Graphics and Image Processing. Have been mosaicing images with a computer off and on since 1989.
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Goutham Mani, Paul Heckbert, Randy Sargent, Rich Gibson in the CREATE Lab at CMU
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Shot by Randy Sargent.
This image was a preliminary study for the creation of a detailed, 360-degree panorama of the Pittsburgh area from the top of the US Steel Tower and produced in conjunction with an investigation being conducted by David Bear at Carnegie Mellon University's Studio for Creative Inquiry. For information: highpointpark@cmu.edu.
View to the south: http://gigapan.org/gigapans/34121/
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At Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Reverend Billy Talen speaks to a crowd about the G-20 summit. Billy travels the country preaching against consumerism, introducing himself as "the Rev. Billy from the Church of Life After Shopping."
For a more distant shot, see http://gigapan.org/gigapans/33527/
To read Rev. Billy's writings: http://www.revbilly.com/chatter/blog/2009/19/a-peace-activist-thinks-about-g-20
Photographer comments: I should have locked exposure on the camera. 2/3 of the way through the shooting, as the robot & camera panned from left to right, Rev. Billy finished his speech and the crowd started to disperse some.
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Carnegie Mellon University freshman Sarah Ceurvorst and other students created this huge sign near the CMU track. Ceurvorst said "We need to come together, find common ground, and aid each other in our time of need. 'Help Wanted' means that we do not need violent protests that will only cause chaos and fear. We need to remember that the G-20 is about coming together to try to find a solution to some of the world's major problems."
Photographer comment: I should have locked exposure on the camera.
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Carnegie Mellon University's CREATE Lab demonstrated robots to passersby on Craig Street in Pittsburgh on Park(ing) Day, September 18, 2009.
For more info:
http://my.parkingday.org/group/parkingdaypittsburgh
http://createlab.ri.cmu.edu/
Photographic notes:
Stitched at 50% resolution.
This gigapan has problems:
The memory card filled up about 90% of the way through shooting, and when I set up for the final 10%, the camera's zoom had changed.
The memory card that I used for the first 90% must have been slow, because occasionally it would fail to write the image file, so some pictures in the grid got dropped. I wrote a Python program that looked at the time between pictures to help me locate the gaps, and filled them with a blocky gray photo. Without that I never would have been able to stitch this at all.
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