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About This GigaPan
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Richard Palmer
- Explore score
- 93
- Size
- 0.77 Gigapixels
- Views
- 3336
- Date added
- April 07, 2009
- Date taken
- April 04, 2008
- Categories
- Galleries
- Competitions
- Tags
- kauai, fofs, endangered, cyanea, asarifolia, lobelioid, hawaii, macro
- Description
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This diminutive endemic Kauai lobelia, Cyanea asarifolia, is now presumed extinct in the wild. It's range was restricted to the base of 3,000 ft. cliffs at the "Blue Hole" at the base of Mt. Wai`ale`ale, the rainiest spot on Earth. These plantlets, when grown to sufficient size in a greenhouse, may one day be planted back into this species' native range to attempt to reestablish a wild, self-sustaining population.
- Stitcher Notes
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GigaPan Stitcher version 0.4.4090 (Windows)
Panorama size: 774 megapixels (35233 x 21993 pixels)
Input images: 224 (16 columns by 14 rows)
Field of view: 49.3 degrees wide by 30.8 degrees high (top=16.3, bottom=-14.4)
Settings:
All default settings
Original image properties:
Camera make: Canon
Camera model: Canon PowerShot S5 IS
Image size: 3264x2448 (8.0 megapixels)
Capture time: 2008-04-04 16:49:38 - 2008-04-04 17:11:22
Aperture: f/8
Exposure time: 0.004 - 0.4
ISO: 800
Focal length (35mm equiv.): 273.6 mm
Digital zoom: off
White balance: Automatic
Exposure mode: Automatic
Horizontal overlap: 33.8 to 37.8 percent
Vertical overlap: 34.3 to 41.7 percent
Computer stats: 8190.32 MB RAM, 2 CPUs
Total time 2:40:51 (0:43 per picture)
Alignment: 12:08, Projection: 13:09, Blending: 2:15:33
Maria Delgado (December 10, 2009, 05:12AM)
Ford said: "If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have replied ' faster horses'" Your comment of "If it isn't broken, then there is no need to fix it" makes us start on a bad note. I did not mean any insult with my comment. I would gladly follow up on Lyons Arboretum and offer help to make their culturing more efficient and cost effective. I am looking for alpha tests for this technology, we are not selling anything . I am sorry that I do not have a Web Site (yet) to inform users, but it is not a secret either.
Richard Palmer (December 09, 2009, 06:09PM)
I trust that your question is an academic one. To receive a better answer than you can get from me, here's a link for you to ask the same question to the Micropropagation Lab manager at the Lyon Arboretum: http://www.hawaii.edu/lyonarboretum /contactUs.php I am not officially associated with the Lyon Arboretum (except for still having some research plants there from grad school), but my first thought would be "If it isn't broken, then there's no need to fix it." The success rate for propagating some of the rarest plant species in the world has been phenomenal. As you surely know, Hawaii, with 1/500 the land area of the U.S.A., harbors at least 1/4 (or more) of the endangered plant and animal species of the entire country. Resources are scarce. Please offer your help if you are sure that your methods could help the research/horticultural community at the University of Hawaii at Manoa to ensure the survival of these gems of the tropics.
Maria Delgado (December 09, 2009, 03:49PM)
I am perplexed by the paradoxical use of this neat technology for image manipulation, in a "landscape" of archaic technology. Why are test tubes still used for propagation of plants? Any contamination problems? There are new and efficient methods for doing this in plastic bags and liquid media, available from Clemson University in South Carolina.