One of the more jolly things I've been doing at work lately is accumulating a series of Gigapan pictures of the Guadalupe River for us to use in classrooms to study parts of the river that the kids don't get to see on the field trips. For those of you not familiar with Gigapan, it is a robotic camera mount that allows one to take a set of several hundred photos in a full 360 degree panorama and stitch them together into a single image that one can then explore in great detail. I finally sat down to figure out how to embed them into the teacher blog at work, so you get one too...
Double-click on a part of the panorama to zoom, drag it to move around, or click on one of the snapshots at the bottom to see where it is located in the bigger picture. (Be warned, this only works well if you have a fast web connection -- i.e. not dial-up....sorry....) If you want to see more of mine from work, go to gigapan.org and search on "biosite", or just look at all the other cool images that others have taken!
I should mention that I found out about the Gigapan from Chad, who is peripherally involved with this at NASA.
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