Shooting video in panoramic fashion at 640×480 with 10 second bursts for each section Zoyous has created a unique effect. Each scene is manually aligned creating 5000 pixel plus width video:
The changes in contrast and brightness along with the mixture of time throughout the scene makes for a panorama technique that would be really interesting to try out.
Other work by Zoyous can be seen at http://www.zoonbats.com/
In 2008 Google announced the Earth API and Google Earth Plugin tandem as a pioneering new avenue for 3D content delivery on the web. The API made it possible for developers to create high performance, rich, geospatial web applications purely in JavaScript and HTML. In the movie below Roman discuss advanced Earth API topics such as programmatic regionation for visualizing large datasets, user interaction techniques, and 3D animation. Its a 55 minute runtime but well worth grabbing a coffee and sitting back to watch:
For presentation slides and all I/O sessions, go to: code.google.com/events/io/sessions.html
The title refers to the location, a residential complex comprised of 25 highrises in the northern part of Shanghai, China. It is entirely shot from the 34th floor of one of the buildings and stages a peeping tom view of the city below, capturing everyday activities that can be observed from this vantage point such as training soldiers, building activity, traffic, gardening. The camera hovers above the entire panorama and focuses on details in the everyday life of this rapidly changing metropolis.
Brilliant City from D-Fuse on Vimeo.
Moscow City timelapse from Timelapser on Vimeo.
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