Bugatti Veyron Bleu Centenaire: Shown in 260 Megapixel photo

Monday, March 09, 2009

Bugatti Veyron Bleu Centenaire: Shown in 260 Megapixel photo

Definitely not your ordinary motor show photo here of the Bugatti Veyron Bleu Centenaire in a 260 megapixel shot.

The Gigapan camera system was originally a collaborative development between Google, Carnegie Mellon University and NASA Ames Intelligent Systems Division's Robotics Group. While it's not a camera per se, it is a highly intelligent robotic platform that holds a high resolution camera on board. In order to create the ultra-high resolution images, the robotic armature moves using mathematical pinpoints to photograph a scene and after taking the first shot it then re-aims with great precision, to take another photograph. Once the scene has been fully captured, the system then stitches all of the elements together to create one huge photograph, in this case, a 260-megapixel shot of the Bugatti Veyron Bleu Centienne.