gigapan for Hort

Cool tool, designed for the mars rovers. [link]

Er, not specifically designed for the rovers.

I was sort'a hoping for software that corrected for the parallax shifts introduced to the rover panoramas because rover cameras do not pivot through their nodal point.

If you look at, for instance, this close pan of the rover deck, you can see the problem in it's gory details.

I would guess that a general solution to the rover panorama problem would require constructing a 3D model of the panorama scene from pairs of images and then constructing the final panorama from a selected viewpoint ( average of the nodal points of the views? ) from the model.

In any event far more information would be required to solve this problem than is available for the raw JPGs ( camera pointing, rover orientation, time of exposure... )

And it would have been so easy to construct camera mountings so that at least one camera was a true pan cam.

As you might expect, I already know of the gigapan site and camera mount.

If I remember correctly, I downloaded a rover panorama a few years ago to test the gigapan site. If anyone has a particular panorama that they might like see presented this way, just tell me which one and I will download it to the site.

The technology was first developed for the NASA rovers on Mars, but all along, scientists at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Mellon University had hoped to put GigaPan into as many hands as possible. Some current systems sell for under U.S. $400.

Hi all,

I was wondering, if I got a lot of jpeg's and stitched them together to produce the mega scene, and converted that mega jpeg into a jp2, could I then not just use IAS (which is free), to do much the same?

Kevin.

http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=3541&window_height=615&window_width=1263

http://www.universetoday.com/2009/01/27/gigapan-inaugural-image-is-nasa-derived-rover-technology/ Hort, if we knew the stitching software.....look at the above mars pan.

I particularly enjoyed the Pathfinder panorama and the sol 1306
But unfortunately, most of the Mars panoramas are official NASA "True Color" (tm) - which make me laugh every time I see one. For example:

This is a sceen grab from the Gigapan West Valley panorama compared to the same image "Hortified" (tm).

I have added an insert of the brightness distribution.

Why do I laugh? Because the wonderful 12x3 bits of original data has been compressed to 7x3 bits! Why??? For you who don't speak computer geek that means an information reduction over 30,000 times! It's like compressing Joyses's Ulysses (265,000 words ) to an 8 word sentence. ( By the way, there are no 8 word sentences in the novel.)