Panorama stitching rendering times. It’s kind of like rendering fractals. After 8 hours of mind-numbing nothing you catch something on the screen with the corner of your eyes and before you can go “what the fu-error?!” you’re in the middle of the street determined to buy something completely inedible from that supermarket that is just… wrong.
So long story short 8 hours ago I started rendering a 22169 px x 7550 px = 167 Mpx test panorama and now I want to become a living paradox by trying to eat something inedible.
On a side note, there are two kinds of funny. Funny that is funny “now” and funny that is funny “later”. Here’s an example of a funny “later” moment.
Imagine you’ve just starting working at a central newspaper. You have virtually no experience in press photography but you are certain your photography skills are solid. Won a few contests, gone to a few camps, been published a few times, that sort of stuff, and you want to prove to those newspaper assholes you’re good. There’s a story that needs covering and downstairs there is a car and a pissed-off driver who wants you in his car like 15 minutes ago and it’s all great. And you get there, feeling like a million bucks and what happens after the third shot when you’re chimping for a nanosecond to check your histogram? No CF card… heartbreaking.
Tomorrow: Visual Impact. Proof of panoramic super-resolution HDR 1:1 macro wonderland concept, soon. I have the damn things, they just need to be stitched. 167 Mpx for a test shot is good. I’m maybe going to try someting like a 1 Gpx 1:1 macro. Maybe.
