Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed an inexpensive ($279) robotic device, the GigaPan, that can attach to any digital camera and create amazing panoramic images. After taking thousands of overlapping images, they are stitched together by software to create a one-gigapixel file.
Randy Sarget, a senior systems scientist at Carnegie Mellon West and the NASA Ames Research Center and an associate professor of robotics at Carnegie Mellon, lead the team that created GigaPan. The team’s goal of creating GigaPan was to introduce people to different countries and cultures through images.
Check out the GigaPan’s web site to see some of these images.
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