GigaPan! Integrating the use of a GigaPan into our programs has
yielded some really fantastic results. For those of you out
there still scratching your head, GigaPan is not a gigantic
frying pan, but an amazing little robot developed by Carnegie
Mellon University, with NASA Ames Intelligent Robotics Group,
and a little help from Google. The robot is designed to turn any
camera into a super high resolution, panorama-taking machine. By
attaching your camera of choice, zooming in to your camera’s
maximum, and telling the GigaPan where to start and end the
panorama, you can let the robot work it’s magic and
systematically snap hundreds of images that are then stitched
together in their own software program, producing one seamless
image. GigaPan has also created a global online community where
users can upload their panoramas, begin conversations and make
discoveries into each other’s images. Here is a brief
documentary on it’s use in a school in South Africa, further
illustrating it’s place in the photographer’s