Archive for April, 2009
Sunday, April 26th, 2009
The O2 by night – Panorama
Time for another panorama. This one shows you the fantastic view of the O2 (formerly known as the Millenium Dome) in London.
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Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
Where’s Willis. The story behind the creation of a 2.6 gigapixel image of Londons Southbank
People who are following my blog on a regular basis have without any doubt noticed that I have somehow become fascinated by gigapixel panoramas over the past couple of months. A few weeks ago, SkyMovies contacted me asking if I would be interested in working with them to create a gigapixel panoramic picture for their [...]
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Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
BBC iPlayer goes HD!
The BBC has finally released HD streaming and downloads of some of their programs. The quality is pretty amazing, but the requirements towards your Broadband connection, and as important, zou computer are rather impressive and will certainly be an issue for a lot of the users these days.
To quote Anthony Rose:
It should be noted that [...]