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Inauguration gigapan-ic
I saw this on a blog and thought it might just be slap bang in the village green of the Massive's bailiwick.
http://www.davidbergman.net/blog/2009/01/22/how-i-made-a-1474-megapixel-...
A gigapan is, I'm reliably informed by wikipedia, "a robotic platform that attaches to a digital camera and some computer software. The robotic platform allows a user to take a photograph, then it will re-aim the camera with great precision, to take another photograph. After taking many photos, the software stitches all the pictures into a gigapixel image."
It's pretty nifty. You can zoom in to see pretty much any face anywhere in the whole crowd.
Could it perhaps be put to some use at Glastonbury? "Yes, that's me there with a pint of scrumpy and a vegetable samosa of debatable quality right at the top of the valley!"
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Very clever...
but parts of the image are over-exposed. Tut tut...!
There's a few bits where
There's a few bits where people have moved at the 'wrong' time and are depicted with four arms or a number of foreheads.
But kudos to the people who spotted Jay Z and Beyonce, Denzel Washington, P Diddy and Dick Cheney looking uncannily like a demon spawn of Dr Stranglelove and The Penguin.
Cheney
also appears to be wearing fluffy brown slippers. And Aretha (four or five rows behind him) has a double chin with a goatee.
At last!
You know those desperate technothrillers where they have a blurry satellite picture of a suspect and someone clicks a big button on the computer screen that says "PROCESS" and magically it all jumps into sharp focus and you can see it's in fact Robert De Niro, pimple akimbo, and you go "Yeah, right"?
Well, now it's real.