Media and Photography Students Learn How This Technology Works
and How It Can Be Utilized
I bring to the class a gigapan robotic head, mount upon it a digital camera, create a gigapan image using it to demonstrate how it works. I then demonstrate how to create a gigapan image without using the gigapan robot, using a standard digital camera with and without a tripod. Students may bring to the class their own digital cameras and this can be a workshop session wherein they create their own gigapan images. We then stitch the images together using free stitching software although I also demonstrate how to use Photoshop's autostitch component.