Giga-pixel view from Mt. Bruce

[Uri Cogan]

On Saturday I went to Bruce Peak (where the antenna farms are located) and shot a 184° panorama of the vista, from Gabriola Island to the north to Sidney Island to the South, with Salt Spring Island in the foreground and the Coast Mountains and Vancouver in the background.

Play with the control buttons, zoom in and out. Use the Full-Screen button

 

Click HERE to see the panorama

 

Technical note:

300mm lens, Nikon D700 body, f10, 1/400sec. manual exposure.

 

The panorama is Stitched from 196 photos, taken in 4 rows of 49 images separated by 3.5°. Stitching all 200 images together created a giant 7 gigabyte image that was reduced after processing to a 352 Mb of over 4000 "tiles" that were uploaded to the server. The server will only deliver what is necessary to fill the screen with the best resolution available. With slow connections it may take a few seconds to fill the screen.

 

If the entire panorama were to be printed at 300 dots per inch, it will be over 24 feet (7 meters) long.

[Margaret C. Benmore]

Uri -- this is wonderful  - you really are the Master...  it's fun finding friends houses and other interesting things... thanks for sharing.. MCB

[Uri Cogan]

Thanks. While shooting I thought that I'd captured a hawk in one of the shots, no luck.

To Doug - yes, some of the tiles took a long time to load, so I switched versions and all seems ok now. I also included an option to change the way the cursor dragging operates - more like an iPad, or iPhone. The panorama is not perfect - I notice some concavity at the horizon; I will try to find the cause & correct it later

Regrettably these Flash panoramas are not compatible with these iOS mobile devices - Eventually I'll have to convert all my stuff to HTML5/CSS3.

[Uri Cogan]

 

Yes, Apple dropped support for Flash in its iOS system for mobile devices and iPhones; other operating systems for mobile devices and smartphones appear to be ok with Flash but I'm not totaly sure.

For compatibility with Apple devices I need to buy and install a special JavaScript file into my "viewer" application (Krpano). I do have another "viewer" application (Pano2VR) that is already capable of creating HTML5/CSS3 but I need to learn a bit more how to use it; the previous version of the Mt. bruce panorama had some problems with some tiles not downloading fast enough.

PS: software. I use PTGui Pro for stitching, Pano2VR or Krpano for creating the actual pano, and Pleinpot for HTML page creation, and of course Photoshop CS5 for image quality.

[Cliff Kelly]

Wonderful Panorama and wonderful web site. The detail is so clear when you magnify and the 184 degree sweep is just magnificent. Thank you so much for steering me to your site.

[Uri Cogan]

Well, I found an "easter egg" in that gigapixel image that I took from Mt. Bruce - an airplane on the runway at the Vancouver International Airport! It's in the haze, but clearly visible!

And... oh yes, I got rid of the concavity of the horizon. I had to re-render the panorama in krpano (www.krpano.com) as "flat", not "cylindrical".