CMU unveils photo system that can travel back in time

Post-Gazette Thursday 21st April, 2011

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute have developed computer browser technology to create the GigaPan Time Machine. The next-generation GigaPan photographic technology allows viewers to zoom into large, panoramic photographs to see fine detail, but now it also allows the viewer to watch the full picture or details within it back and forth through time. One GigaPan Time Machine video, for example, shows a garden from the time seeds are planted until full bloom. The viewer can watch the entire garden grow or focus on individual plants to see caterpillars and stink bugs eating particular leaves or stems. Photos in the Time Machine videos are taken in 15-minute intervals, each with millions and even billions of pixels of resolution, which allows zoom-ins deep into ...

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