I dont exactly understand how the The New York Times made this image. If you zoom in, panning left to right happens in a flat way just as youd expect in a big panorama stitch, but zoom out to the widest level and its 3D: there is occlusion and depth. Is the widest level actually a video or a (massive!) number of unique still frames? I dont think it is, because there are edge artifacts around some objects, and the movement of the people isnt fluid. I guess that since they moved the camera along a single axis in a predictable way theres technically enough information there to infer depth, sort of the way you would from a stereo pair. So theyve fed the images into some kind of 3D conversion algorithm which guesses at which pixels are foreground elements occluding background, and then inferentially draws the missing frames. Pretty cool piece of interactive design for a newspaper article about a natural gas processing ship.
Posted on: Sat, 01 Nov 2014 21:34:03 +0000
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