Wanda of Computing Workshop notes:
Gigapan panoramas are so very useful for esoteric, educational, and instructional purposes. But, I feel that one of the most fun aspects of it is the ability to play that age-old childhood game of “I Spy”! It’s a treasure and scavenger hunt, all rolled into one.
As an artist, I am always interested in the little details and the patterns I see. When I first looked online at the wonderful images possible with Gigapan robotic technology and software, I immediately focused in on things like brick patterns on buildings, stone strata in landscapes, color and pattern in street scenes, and the geometry of manmade and natural scenes. Then it became a game to look at the tinier, more notable anomalies. For example, it was fun to find a child with a toy, to find a book title on a shelf, to find a reddish stone amid all the grey ones, and to spot the frowning person amid happier people.
In our Computing Workshop, we enjoyed looking together at a Gigapan image and isolating some items that we put on the comments category. In our comment, we used the “I Spy” technique. It would be fun to create our I Spy list in rhyme, similar to the way the published “I Spy” books are presented, and perhaps to make a sequence of stitched panoramas on a particular theme. The possibilities are truly endless, and I’m excited to be involved with this program and with these students.
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