Sweeping Panoramas, Courtesy of a Robot
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/20/technology/20novel.html"... A new, inexpensive robotic device from researchers at
Carnegie Mellon University
attaches snugly to almost any standard digital camera, tilting and
panning it to fashion highly detailed panoramic vistas — whether of the
Grand Canyon, a rain forest or a backyard Easter egg hunt. The robot is
called GigaPan, named "giga" for the billion or more pixels it can
marshal for a typical panorama. It creates the huge, high-resolution
vista by extending its robotic finger and repeatedly clicking the
camera shutter, taking tens, hundreds or even thousands of overlapping
images, each at a slightly different angle, that are then stitched
together by software to create one gigapixel shot..."
