dogs breakfast

June 13, 2012

Today we had a great lecture about hydrology and potential hydrology project on Kauai. Out of the three topics we are going to be doing research on I know the least about hydrology, but sounds very interesting and would love to take on project while on Kauai dealing with hydrology.

After a crash course in Raster imagery, “dogs breakfast”, I learned a new program today called Photosynth. Photosynth syncs multiple photos together to create on large image, these images can be uploaded online and viewed by the public. My first two photo synths failed, I think that it failed because I did not take enough pictures and there was too much noise in the background. The first attempt was at the beach and there was too much activity in the background and the sun angle made a lot of shadows on my images. The photo synth that worked a little better was of my sandals and water bottle indoors on a table. I tried to take more photos at similar angles, instead of multiple angles. This worked better but I still needed to take more photos. It is an interesting tool and technology. I can see how it would be use full for creating a larger image of landscapes. If I were to do it again, I would take around 100-300 photos of the same object for a better outcome.

Here is my attempt

http://photosynth.net/view.aspx?cid=53efb570-23a2-425f-b526-165204d5fbf4

There is a lot of after-hours work, but vibes and good attitude, and helpfulness of the other students makes it more enjoyable.

Im looking forward for tomorrow to learn the equipment.

RYan