Dubbo Panorama

[den]

11 jpgs stitched together with Autostitch.

Comments

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

45,000. It's the major population center for most of the western area of the state.

[level-head.livejournal.com]

Let's see, that translates to about 30,000 US, right?

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[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

At the moment. A few years ago it dropped as low as US28,000 but it's climbing back slowly.

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.

[level-head.livejournal.com]

You're a small fraction of the population of India or China -- so are we. From that perspective, it's not all THAT different. ];-)

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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[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

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.

[level-head.livejournal.com]

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. ];-)

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[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

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)

[level-head.livejournal.com]

Oho! Those aern't "a puff of tire smoke" and "a cloud of road dust" -- those are artifacts where the vehicle has been removed!

Very clever software indeed! What is it?

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[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

Autostitch

http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mbrown/autostitch/autostitch.html

[azhreia.livejournal.com]

'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.

[level-head.livejournal.com]

I'm using Netscape. No worries. You have to hold your mouth right. ];-)

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[level-head.livejournal.com]

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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