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ehanson
Mountain climber
Santa Monica, CA
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Topic Author's Original Post - May 7, 2008 - 08:28pm PT
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Hey all-
You might recall some gigapixel images we have done before on Yosemite at http://www.xrez.com. We are planning a much larger high-resolution project in Yosemite soon which should really benefit climbers, you can read about it here:
http://www.xrez.com/yose_proj/Yose_index.html
On Sat May 30, we will have 20 photographers shoot coordinated gigapixel images all throughout the rim (http://www.xrez.com/yose_proj/Yose_valley_shoot_locations.jpg);, covering most of the walls in amazing detail. We will then map all the gigapixel images to a 1M high resolution 3d model and extract a continuous long image of all the valley walls, potentially one of the largest terrestrial images to date. This will end up online w/ deep zoom capabilities of the entire valley. Anyway, I know the climbing community will benefit greatly greatly from this, so wanted to give a heads up! It probably won't be completed until early August, but should be a great reference once it is online.
Eric Hanson
eric@xrez.com
xRez Studio, Inc.
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GDavis
Trad climber
SoCal
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Can't wait to hear about it!
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Gary Carpenter
climber
SF Bay Area
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Ed and I were listening to you guys Saturday as we climbed Sentinel Rock. By chance, we were on the same FSR Channel.
Looking forward to seeing the results of your effort.
Gary
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Spotting Gary and me in the pano will be a real test of just how comprehensive the shoot is!
We were in a very unvisited place... (and one I'm not likely to ever return to, at least the upper scramble!).
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Nate D
climber
San Francisco
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I knew someone would somehow manage this eventually. Should be amazing!
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morphus
Mountain climber
Angleland
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Aug 11, 2008 - 10:12am PT
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bump - extreme detail, but also an extremely long wait for it to be displayed
how's the zoom on a fast connection?
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dolomite_said
Gym climber
) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) . . . Buffering
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Aug 11, 2008 - 12:12pm PT
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So rad . This will no doubt be a vital tool for further Yosemite exploration (armchair or otherwise) . Thank You .
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Elcapinyoazz
Social climber
Joshua Tree
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Aug 11, 2008 - 12:53pm PT
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This thing is incredible.
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Larry
Trad climber
Bisbee
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Aug 12, 2008 - 11:19pm PT
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You're going to make me install Silverlight, aren't you?
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TKingsbury
Trad climber
MT
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Aug 20, 2008 - 11:33am PT
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really really cool...wow
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Clint Cummins
Trad climber
SF Bay area, CA
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May 14, 2009 - 09:51pm PT
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Xrez is great - I like to use it to zoom in on areas and draw lines for the climbs.
Today I was checking out the base of the left side of Goodrich Pinnacle, as I had just climbed The Mouth there with Robert Summers last weekend. Here's the image of the base area:
This didn't look right to me - as I know there is a lot of sand and talus there (and sometimes snow), and the first pitch of The Mouth wasn't there.
It turns out a lot of this image is cloned (sections copied and pasted). Maybe they didn't get the base photos, or the files were lost? Here is my reconstruction of the cloning:
Overall the quality of the Xrez images is great and they are a very nice and free resource. But I thought this was interesting.
(This is the only cloning I've found so far, and I've used the site for several hours so far).
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MisterE
Trad climber
One Step Beyond!
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May 14, 2009 - 09:56pm PT
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The project sounds great - but as Clint pointed out: still a few bugs?
I would hope the cloning was not intentional, as that may be misleading...
Staying tuned,
Erik
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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May 14, 2009 - 11:18pm PT
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Christ, Clint. Thanks for this. This is not the left side of Goodrich in detail but cloned-in for sure. It just is not.
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Jan
Mountain climber
Okinawa, Japan
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May 15, 2009 - 12:24am PT
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Clint - ever the master of detail!
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Karl Baba
Trad climber
Yosemite, Ca
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May 15, 2009 - 01:52am PT
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You guys are blowing my mind.
First the OP for having this expansive vision and then putting it together. Kudos
Second to Clint for being aware, awake and curious enough to spot the cloning
Peace
Karl
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klk
Trad climber
cali
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May 15, 2009 - 01:55am PT
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good on ya clint.
way up there ye auld autistic spectrum. hehe.
kuehl.
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ß Î Ø T Ç H
Boulder climber
the greasewood ghetto
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May 15, 2009 - 02:21am PT
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You can't 'shop such a tiny area of a HUGE picture like that (and why bother ?) . You're just confusing what it looks like in person , with : from a long ways away .
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ehanson
Mountain climber
Santa Monica, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - May 15, 2009 - 01:43pm PT
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Hey guys, I am one of the leaders of that project, thanks for spotting that. I assure you it was not intentionally cloned, but rather a stitching error from our stitching app. The problem w/ doing gigapixel photog is that we can never closely inspect all of the imagery due to the vast amount of it. I will look into that stitch and see if I can correct it, but in the meantime enjoy the images, but only use them for general reference..
thx
eric@xrez.com
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