Using the Railway Network as a Flatbed Scanner
Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner [video]
I have been capturing extremely wide photos by pointing an industrial linear camera out of a moving train window. This process involves stitching together thousands of image lines captured every second. I will discuss the challenges of measuring train speed accurately and collecting data fast enough to create a coherent image, along with the difficulties of processing and displaying such massive files.
I've been taking extremely wide photos by pointing an industrial linear camera out the window of a moving train and stitching together the several thousand lines captured per second after the fact.
- Terr_
Random thought: If you stick a very small adhesive mirror to the outside window before boarding, then footage "looking down" at the regularly-spaced railroad ties could contribute to information about the current speed and acceleration.
Well, on a straight section anyway, if you turn, the inner/outer edges will appear differently-spaced...
Wouldn't do anything positive in terms of suspicious staff though. They might think it's like some kind of heist-movie that will involve a specialized glass cutter making a circle on the window.
- rollulus
From experience: the iPhone’s panorama photo mode works to take pictures like this from a train.
- jo-m
Basically the inverse of https://daniel.lawrence.lu/photos/ or https://trains.jo-m.ch/ ;)
- inigyou
Random thought: if you stick a camera to each train you might know their location better than Deutsche Bahn does.
- slipheen
I love this so much!
This is such a cool hack, just for the sake of it. Amazing hacking and amazing art!
In the preso, she has said the full size output is on the website-
can anyone see what that link is? I didn't find it on the video page, but I might've just missed it.