Archive for March, 2009
Monday, March 23rd, 2009
Hosting Gigapan images on your own server
Over the last couple of days I have played around a bit with the backend of how the server side of hosting the Gigapan images is working. I was interested in two different topics: What is the best way to embed the images into an existing website, and second: Can I host a Gigapan image [...]
5 Comments » - Posted in GigaPan by mike
Monday, March 23rd, 2009
Form 5090
As most of you know, I am spending a bit of time these days taking pictures in and around London. And I can now add myself to the list of people who ave been stopped by the police under Section 44 of the Terrorism Act. And a such I have now my first (probably not [...]
No Comments » - Posted in London by mike
Friday, March 20th, 2009
Panorama: Canary Wharf by night
I finally made my first attempt at shooting a high resolution panoramic image during the evening. Regular visitors will recognize the view of Canary Wharf already. It was unfortunately rather windy outside, causing the camera to not be always as stable as needed for these long exposure shots, but for what it’s worth, I am [...]
No Comments » - Posted in GigaPan by mike
Thursday, March 19th, 2009
London Millwall Inner Dock Panorama
As always, enjoy.
View of Millwall Inner Dock towards Canary Wharf
Panorama size: 877 megapixels (59295 x 14798 pixels)
Input images: 154 (22 columns by 7 rows)
As always, you can find the complete list of my panoramas here.
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1 Comment » - Posted in GigaPan by mike
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009
Gigapan images on your iPhone
Last december Microsoft released an iPhone version of Seadragon, which is a viewer for Deep Zoom images. By default, Seadragon can not be used to view GigaPan images, but thanks to Daniel Gasienica, this is now different. Daniel released GigaPan Mobile, which is basically a Python script on top of Google App Engine with know-how [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in iPhone by mike
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009
Canary Wharf panorama
Here is another GigaPan Panorama. This time it is a view of Canary Wharf taken from the Milwall Docks yesterday. Unfortunately the weather conditions were not perfect to take a panorama due to the fact that the clouds were moving rather fast, and as such it creates a rather unusual pattern.
Anyway, enjoy.
Canary Wharf
Panorama size: 994 [...]