Extreme Panoramic Project on Surface and Silverlight

Adam Kinney — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 23:18:00 GMT

Thanks to Scoble for posting the great xRez Studio - extreme pano project video today. The project itself is interesting and the deliver is the frosting on the cake.

70 photographers hiking through Yosemite Park, toting robotic cameras, and positioned by GPS coordinates. They then synchronize their shot taking via radio and in 40 minutes they have 10,000 photos of the park. More details can be found on the Yosemite Extreme Panoramic Project site.

How could you possibly display all of the photos in a usable and effective way?

*cue SeaDragon music*

Scoble interviews two of the members of the xRez team Eric Hansen and Greg Downing, while they explain the project and demo the application. Photos are overlayed on top of the shooting location map which is displayed in panoramic, multi-touch zooming goodness.

The video gives you an idea of the interaction of the application and the depth of detail available in each of the panoramas. Since it did come from Scoble's phone though, the quality isn't real high. For an idea of what the photos actually look like you can check out their xRez Yosemite Shoot photo pool on flickr.

Towards the end of the film Greg mentions that there will be an online version available soon via Silverlight. I'll definitely be keeping an eye out for that.

Olympic Peninsula Trip Photos

Adam Kinney — Wed, 28 May 2008 07:48:00 GMT

I've lived here in Washginton since the last half of 2005 and this spring we finally took the time to visit the Olympic Peninsula. The highlights of the trip included Lake Quinault, the Pacific Ocean, Sul Doc Hot Springs, Lake Crescent and Hurricane Ridge. We took a ton of pictures and I've posted the best ones on Flickr as a new Set.

Below are a few samples:

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Extreme Panoramic Project on Surface and Silverlight

Olympic Peninsula Trip Photos