Link Love: 6/25/2010
- Wow—the possibilities are endless. The Victoria & Albert Museum has come up with a quilt pattern maker. I’m imagining artworks as quilts. Now I just need to learn how to sew . . . [via How about orange]
- Flickr photos are getting bigger and prettier thanks to a site overhaul. Double your Flickr Commons viewing pleasure!
- In DC for the Folklife Festival or just hanging out? Come to the Mall with your camera (or camera phone) and help digitize our museums in 3D (and win prizes) by snapping pictures of the Smithsonian museums!
- A webcomic just for archivists . . . [via Jennifer Wright]
- From US Soldiers patrolling the Berlin Wall in 1980 to cute dogs on polar expeditions in Antarctica, CriticalPast has a huge archive of historic video and images to browse through. [via Phil Bradley]
- Software engineers have literally been getting perspective from 18th century perspectival painters: they’re using paintings by Venetian painters from the 1700s to help them design wide-angle camera lenses that shoot in perspective. [via More intelligent life]
- Archives Outside gives a great list of practical tips for dating photographs (and no, I don’t mean your profile pic for OKCupid . . .).
- The Care and Feeding of a Mermaid (!) from State Library and Archives of Florida [via swissmiss]:
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I wonder if the Panini projection can be used with Stereo cameras to enhance the panoramic photo even more?
The Panini projection is not a camera lens, it is a piece of software, that re-projects photos in a way that emulates the perspective of 18th century Roman (not Venetian) painter Gian Paolo Pannini. More: http://vedutismo.net/PPStory/PPStory2.pdf
Hi Tom- Thank you very much for stopping by to comment, and thanks for the clarification (sorry I didn't get back to you sooner, Sam). As Tom points out Pannini was a Roman painter, and the vedutisti painters, mentioned in the New Scientist article, worked in 18th-century Venice (which was not yet a part of Italy during that time period). The PDF link that Tom included has some nice before/after shots showing what results the software produces.
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