Much as I'd like to be someplace warm, that just looks *way* too hot for me. Hot, dry and very dusty. Are there any swimming holes in the area? Besides pools, that is? A nice river, lake or even a dam?
The panorama runs from the NE (left) to the SW (right.)
It's a nifty little program. You tell it where the source photos are and it stitches them all together. There doesn't appear to be a vertical or horizontal limit, either.
If you look along the road to the right, just above the 60KPH sign, you will see a police car mysteriously appearing from a haze. It's either an artifact of the joining process or the Police have special powers. I suspect the latter; they always seem to appear from nowhere.
I noticed that -- and other artifacts of seeming appear in the same area. It wasn't obvious to me that it was a police car -- but it appeared to be half a car protruding from the dust of another half no longer there. ];-)
Poor little panorama software can't cope with fast moving objects.
Detail of source image1 (http://www.battyden.net/source1.jpg) Detail of source image2 (http://www.battyden.net/source2.jpg) Detail of blended images (http://www.battyden.net/panoblend.jpg)
'm afraid there will never be as many AUS as United Statians. It's probably for the best. I don't think the world would cope.
I don't think Australia would cope.
It riles me sometimes that people look only at the size of the country, and the sparseness of our current population and seem to think "they could fit millions more in there, why are they being so precious about immigration ?", without realising that MAMBA is a fair description of most of the country - and that's just the part that ISN'T desert.
nice pic, btw. and glad to see that firefox can cope with extremely-bloody-large pictures. Netscape couldn't.
The US has its own million of hectares of MAMBA -- and it's amazing that this populated country has such giant areas of unpopulated land. In the North, but not as far west as the Pacific, there are many towns with populations of 5 or 10 or 20 people. Not thousands.
The whole central western area is much like that. And Los Angeles, population about Sydney x 2, is a reformed desert.
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they're brown trunks and green leaves ... sounds like trees to me ;-)
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I'm afraid there will never be as many AUS as United Statians. It's probably for the best. I don't think the world would cope.
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It's a nicely done panorama, incidentally -- you've captured a nice span of countryside and the seams are artfully stitched.
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It's a nifty little program. You tell it where the source photos are and it stitches them all together. There doesn't appear to be a vertical or horizontal limit, either.
If you look along the road to the right, just above the 60KPH sign, you will see a police car mysteriously appearing from a haze. It's either an artifact of the joining process or the Police have special powers. I suspect the latter; they always seem to appear from nowhere.
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Detail of source image1 (http://www.battyden.net/source1.jpg)
Detail of source image2 (http://www.battyden.net/source2.jpg)
Detail of blended images (http://www.battyden.net/panoblend.jpg)
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Very clever software indeed! What is it?
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http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mbrown/autostitch/autostitch.html
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I don't think Australia would cope.
It riles me sometimes that people look only at the size of the country, and the sparseness of our current population and seem to think "they could fit millions more in there, why are they being so precious about immigration ?", without realising that MAMBA is a fair description of most of the country - and that's just the part that ISN'T desert.
nice pic, btw. and glad to see that firefox can cope with extremely-bloody-large pictures. Netscape couldn't.
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The whole central western area is much like that. And Los Angeles, population about Sydney x 2, is a reformed desert.
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