Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner [video]
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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.
...and both got the same weird artifacts, as it piled "similar" slices together then jumbled up "complex" slices.
Too bad they can't have a toggle for time-slice based panorama vs scene-based panorama. or maybe turn on accelerometer optimizations or not.
Through a regular camera, a person near the track, and a statue 16x times as large but 16x further away would have the same apparent size. They would show up as the same number of pixels in width and height. However, with a line scan camera, the apparent width of objects does not change with distance. Those same objects would have the same apparent height, but the width of the larger statue would be 16x.
You can also think of the camera of having a virtual sensor that's a few cm tall and a variable width, from meters to miles wide. It can only capture scenes as wide as the virtual sensor, unless it's being rotated.
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.
Put down two model railroad straightaways next to each other, with two locomotives, use them as a base to attach a 3d-printer arm across and "print" a model railroad diorama, incrementally moving the locomotives to print each slice.
In other words, a flatbed 3d printer where one axis is the locomotives moving across your railroad layout. I think it could rejuvenate model railroads if you could print mountains, towns, streambeds, roads, etc...
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1. Yes, there are people who are more into the operations side of things, but I think for most model railroaders it’s as much about the building as the running.
Like you could put down the foundation of everything, then manually add the grass or the buildings or pour epoxy water.
or you could print the roadbeds and the buildings and just paint everything yourself.
I wonder if you could create those "standard sized diorama" things that people take to railroad conventions that people hook together with their neighbors who also have standardized layouts.
this is easy with a roll of film and a slit for an exposure window. you have the lens and the aperture and focus and all of that, but instead of a full frame, you mask it down to a small slit. slowly pull the film across the slit when it's time to capture your target. captures are limited only by how much film you can fit on a reel and feed through the camera during flight. I would expect that miles of film could be carried on the SR-71 without problems. You'd need (I assume) some custom machines to develop that film properly and to produce prints, but that's not a challenge for an entity that can design and build an SR-71.
In any case, it seems that using a full frame video would be much easier to post process since frame to frame correlation tells you everything you need to know about motion.