The Capture Brief: Decisions to Make Before the First Frame
Plan subject handling, optics, lighting, test capture, scale, rights, and Viewer metadata before starting a long Magnify2 imaging run.
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Smartphone Teardowns: A Gigapixel Look Inside Sixteen Devices
Sixteen device teardowns imaged on a GIGAmacro system: 5,041 photographs, 14.3 gigapixels, and a decade of mobile engineering in interactive detail.
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Surface Roughness & Color Control in Architectural Panels
Surface Roughness & Color Control in Architectural Panels When an architect designs a building details matter. When the building is a landmark, clad in revolutionary materials rarely used before, details such as color and texture take on a a special significance. It seems obvious that color and texture need to be predictable and consistent, for…
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No More Octopus Wrestling
No More Octopus Wrestling With the 2026 Upgrades becoming available for retrofit to older Magnify2 systems, one of the world’s most esoteric activities – Octopus Wrestling – will die out. What, you might ask, is Octopus Wrestling? (I didn’t actually know it was a real thing, just my own “in my head” name for the…
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What’s Next for the GIGAmacro Viewer?
What’s Next for the GIGAmacro Viewer? The GIGAmacro Viewer is constantly updated to add new functionality and to fix any problems we find. See the list below! In talking to a number of users, we are hearing requests for “storytelling” features such as the ability to selectively display Features, to add Features in a sequence (like playing back…
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Big Insect Match Maker at Maker Faire Bay Area
Be a part of the Big Insect Match Maker at Maker Faire Bay Area Are you any match for an insect? Come find which insect best matches your unique maker skills and interests. Get your portrait taken with a giant print of your insect. Learn how technology is shedding light on the maker skills of the insect world. Here’s how you can be…
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Using the GIGAmacro Viewer to Annotate Your Gigapan Images
Using the GIGAmacro Viewer to Annotate Your Gigapan Images Here’s how to annotate your Gigapan images. Gigapan images have been popular for ten years or so, and the gigapan.org web site claims over 55,000 members. Many of GIGAmacro customers have legacy images on gigapan.org and wanted a way to additional functionality – such as annotations –…
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How to Make Gigapixel Macro Images
The Overall Process The GIGAmacro images featured in the GIGAmacro Viewer are assembled from hundreds, or more often thousands, of individual photographs. To create a gigapixel image, we use a technique generally known as “Stack and Stitch”. Focus Stacking Focus stacking is a technique which combines multiple images taken at different focus planes to…
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The Power of Annotating and Sharing Gigapixel Images
The Power of Annotating and Sharing Gigapixel Images. The power of annotating and sharing gigapixel images was shown when we were at the Geological Society of America conference in Seattle recently. We got chatting with the folks at the Stonerose Interpretive Center in Eastern WA state, right by the Canadian border. They showed us the fossil below and…
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The East Wall at Delphi Text Inscriptions and Translation
Adrian High is a PhD student at Duke University whose research is fuelled by a fascination with ancient documentary evidence. He explored the multilingual epigraphic record from second and third century Histria on the Black Sea through the prism of sociolinguistic theory as part of his Mag.Phil. at the University of Vienna. This blog is…
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