Today’s Pic: “VLP” stands for “Very Large Photo,” (2.2 MB in this case) if you’re wondering, Gentle Reader. This is one of perhaps three photos I’ve ever created using the “stitch and merge” option in my photo editing software. Stitch and Merge is a process whereby you take two or more photos, three in this case, and instruct the app to blend all of the subject pics into one large panoramic photo. Very useful when you have a large subject, such as the antenna farm at the Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope, near Socorro, NM.
This is one pic that you most definitely should “click for larger,” even though the pic itself is downsized to 50% of the original. Well, check that last. I decided to upload the original full-size pic. See if you can tell where the app “stitched” the pics together. It’s pretty danged hard to see, IMHO.
(Added: apparently Blogger resizes VLPs to "fit" some corporate size limit, coz the pic you see when you double-click the photo is but one-third... or less... the size of the original I uploaded. Oh, well. I tried.)
April, 2004.
Back in a bit. Late, late night and all that.
I love it when you talk tech-no stuff. Speaking of, did you read Desert Flier's latestpost on the Osprey? Good read!
ReplyDeleteLooks like about a four shot merge...beautiful shot!
ReplyDeleteThat's amazing :)
ReplyDeleteThanks for the kind comments, all y'all. I only wish you could see the full-size shot...MUCH more detail while providing a better representation of the size and scope of the antenna farm...
ReplyDeleteBlogs enable time travel. Hello from the future.
ReplyDeleteLOL, Bob! It took me almost a month to respond, but better late than never, eh? Time-travel, indeed! ;-)
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