At the end, I am at home in the woods
It took a couple of weeks for Jeffrey Warren’s message to sink in. At first I thought his workshop on balloon aerial photography at the Fine gigapixel conference in November promoted a fringe pursuit – lofting cameras on tethered helium balloons to make better maps than were currently available. But this pursuit emerged from the … Continue reading “My Flying GigaPan”
I used the above gigapan to make a map of the stone pylons surrounding the plaza. Click below to see a Flash animation summarizing the process. Speyer Cathedral pillar map from Marc Buma gigapan
I have been collecting data about the gigapans I upload to gigapan.org ever since I noticed some unexplained behavior in the View counts and Explore Scores of my first public gigapans. Unlike YouTube, Gigapan does not make archival user data publicly available, so it has to be independently collected. Kilgore661 has been doing a great … Continue reading “Hot list of gigapans”
My posts about gigapans Fine Gigapixel Conference proceedings paper Video of Fine Gigapixel Conference talk Want a handy hot list of your gigapans for your Web site? Gigapans of Salisbury Vermont presented with a hint of geographic context. My profile at gigapan.org
(The links below are currently showing only the most recent 60 gigapans due to recent changes at gigapan.org) The gigapan API (application programming interface) allows you to query the database at gigapan.org for information about all the public gigapans there. Click here for three examples of how the API can be used to list all … Continue reading “Hot Gigapan Data”
I have incorporated some gigapans into Google Earth KML tours and tried three ways to share the tours with others: embedding, KML preview, and downloading. There is not a clear winner. An earlier post has examples of all three methods. A Google Earth KML (keyhole markup language) file can contain placemarks, paths, and polygons, but … Continue reading “Gigapans in Google Earth KML tours”
Here is the paper I submitted for the proceedings of the Fine International Conference on Gipapixel Imaging for Science (pdf).
The Gigapan is embedded at the bottom of the page. Roll the mouse wheel while it is over the image. Click and drag. Double click. Click “GigaPan” (lower right) to see the source. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . … Continue reading “Gigapan of the old Crown Point Bridge”
In 1992, Kellogg’s was collaborating with World Book to deliver educational content to kids on cereal boxes. In addition to its popular encyclopedia (still in print and updated every year), World Book produced Childcraft, a 15-volume set about everything interesting to kids. Childcraft produced the cereal box content.
The north end of Lake Dunmore is surrounded by 250 acres of flat, level land which is less than 25 feet higher than the lake. The soil is gravely sand, and lobes of sandy soil bulge into the lake at the Keewaydin and Songadeewin summer camps. I assumed these sandy lobes were deltas built into … Continue reading “The flats and scarps of Lake Dunmore”
Vernal pools are enchanting places, the breeding habitat of dozens of animal species that would otherwise be absent or rare in a forest. But it is a challenge to take enchanting photos of vernal pools. If you stand far enough away to include the entire pool, lots of trees will probably block your view and … Continue reading “Selfie at the pool”
This past Sunday, six people with smartphones and one guy with a pad of paper descended on a 350 acre property in the Green Mountains near Bridgewater Hollow, Vermont. The smartphone people used iNaturalist to document about 300 observations of plants and animals (and quite a few things that might be neither, like slime molds … Continue reading “Bridgewater Hollow BioBlitz”