VERY COOL: 360 Degrees Of Sen. Obama's Detroit Rally From Detroit Free Press (Obama Panorama)

[Hissyspit]

From Detroit Free Press photographer. Go on. Click the link:

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/2008061...

Don't know if it is the Gigapan camera technology, but "way cool" (360 degrees worth), nonetheless.

[graywarrior]

1. Holy crap, that is awesome.

What a crowd!

[Labors of Hercules]

14. dizzy. whoo.

[Buzz Clik]

2. Great toys!

[Hissyspit]

3. More:

http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=5711

[Hope And Change]

4. Nice.

[SharonRB]

5. Very cool!

I wish I could find myself, though.

[cui bono]

6. Me likey.

Thanks!

[uponit7771]

7. FAUX News Special: Why didn't Obama's Detroit rally fill up the nose bleeds?

Good pic

K&R!!!

[Bozita]

21. Detroit teevee station said a couple of thousand watched it outside the JLA on a jumbotron

[powergirl]

8. Is there a 360 picture of McCain's speech in front of the green sign?

That night Obama secured the nomination? That would be funny.

[proud patriot]

9. very cool

[butterfly77]

10. They need to use this method more often...

you can also get a better feel of the room..

[sufrommich]

11. Look at all those Stanley Cup banners!!!!!!

lol.Not to take anything away from Obama.That's an impressive mix of ethnicity for a Detroit audience.I hate to say that about my fellow Michiganders,but it's true.Obama has already made change happen and he's not the president yet.

[Dudley_DUright]

12. Very cool H

I watched on the Ustream stream, but this gives a much better sense of size of the crowd.

[Hissyspit]

13. kick for 3-dimensionality

[SalmonChantedEvening]

15. Spectacular

Thank you Hissy

[Eclectablog]

16. Nope, not Gigapan

My wife, Anne Savage, took the picture and it's not Gigapan. It's digital camera with a fisheye lens on a panoramic tripod head. The image is a composite of six individual photos stitched together.

(That's me in the yellow t-shirt)

More coolness at Anne's website RevolutionaryViews.com.

Chris

[Hissyspit]

17. Thanks, Chris. I noticed after I posted that it is making use of Flash to create the effect on

the web page. I have a really nice Sony digital camera. I need to get one of those panoramic tripod head. I am hoping to be at the Dem convention in August. Tell your wife I enjoyed her "panobamarama!"
I wonder if this is the same product from Carnegie-Mellon:
http://www.cmu.edu/homepage/collaboration/2007/fall/how...

As far as panoramic views as "Art," I think painter Rackstraw Downes had us all beat:
http://www.askart.com/AskART/D/rackstraw_downes/rackstr...

[Eclectablog]

18. Thanks!

I'll let her know. The pano head she uses is from Manfroto $$$.

The Flash is simply to display the stitched image once it's been assembled by the stitching software. It can display as a Quicktime or Java as well. Flash is just more common these days.

By the way, niether of your links worked for me for some reason.

[Hissyspit]

23. Here. Maybe this one will work:

http://www.cmu.edu/homepage/collaboration/2007/fall/how...

This is a painting from the second link, not a photo:

http://www.askart.com/AskART/D/rackstraw_downes/rackstr...

[DerekJ]

20. Well, tell your wife, I had her pictures rotating on my computer screen all last night.

So thanks, and good work

[Bozita]

22. I never thought the Freep would find anyone to fill the shoes of the late Tony Spina.

I was wrong.

Welcome to DU.

[Eclectablog]

24. That's very flattering!

Tony Spina? My, my...

Actually, Anne is a freelancer and not officially a Freeper. This is her first "sale" to them but hopefully not her last.

Thanks for the nice comment.

[progressoid]

25. Nice work!

[madwivoter]

19. Wow. What an amazing perspective.

Thanks for posting!